Hi Listers, I have an 8 gb flash drive on which I keep a spare copy of my family tree data including FTM. Unfortunately the main folder is now corrupted. I cannot open it and it will not let me delete it, even using Unlocker. I have a couple of other folders on the flash drive which are okay, but the bulk of the storage on this flash drive is taken up with my genealogy folder which make is pretty much useless. Can anyone tell me how to get rid of it please? Regards Judith

Hi Judith, You can try a File Recovery program like this one... http://www.pcinspector.de/Sites/file_recovery/info.htm?language=1 More discussion here... http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-data-recovery-file-undelete-utility.htm As well, please be sure that you are using the "Safely Remove Hardware" ICON in your System Tray to "Stop" activity on your Flash Drive before you remove it.  Many times data is written to the Flash Drive well after you have stopped copying files to and from the drive. It is important to stop this activity before you remove the Flash Drive or you may only partially write a file to the Drive, potentially causing some corruption.  This may be a reason why you have a corrupt folder ?!?!? Regards, Kevin. On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Judith <judith.bn@bigpond.com> wrote: > > Hi Listers, > > I have an 8 gb flash drive on which I keep a spare > copy of my family tree data including FTM.  Unfortunately > the main folder is now corrupted.  I cannot open it and > it will not let me delete it, even using Unlocker. I have > a couple of other folders on the flash drive which are > okay, but the bulk of the storage on this flash drive is > taken up with my genealogy folder which make is > pretty much useless.  Can anyone tell me how to > get rid of it please? > > Regards > Judith > > > > :-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~: > > Take pity on Digest subscribers and remember to SNIP when replying. > > :-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~: > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to COMPUTERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- -------- K. Ross kr5927@gmail.com

Hi Kevin, Thanks for the suggestion. I was actually trying to get a delete program, as I am doubtful that a recovery program will work. I had two other files on the drive which were also corrupted which I managed to open....the data in each was totally corrupted but I managed to delete them using Unlocker. With the large file I am now trying to remove I had intended replacing the file [folder actually] with the latest version, so I dont need the contents, I just want it off my flash drive so I can save the latest version on there. Regards Judith ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Ross" <kr5927@gmail.com> To: <computers@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 3:28 AM Subject: Re: [COMPUTERS] Corrupt Folder on flash drive wont delete? > Hi Judith, > > You can try a File Recovery program like this one... > http://www.pcinspector.de/Sites/file_recovery/info.htm?language=1 > > More discussion here... > http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-data-recovery-file-undelete-utility.htm > > As well, please be sure that you are using the "Safely Remove > Hardware" ICON in your System Tray to "Stop" activity on your Flash > Drive before you remove it. Many times data is written to the Flash > Drive well after you have stopped copying files to and from the drive. > It is important to stop this activity before you remove the Flash > Drive or you may only partially write a file to the Drive, potentially > causing some corruption. This may be a reason why you have a corrupt > folder ?!?!? > > > Regards, > Kevin. > > > > On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Judith <judith.bn@bigpond.com> wrote: >> >> Hi Listers, >> >> I have an 8 gb flash drive on which I keep a spare >> copy of my family tree data including FTM. Unfortunately >> the main folder is now corrupted. I cannot open it and >> it will not let me delete it, even using Unlocker. I have >> a couple of other folders on the flash drive which are >> okay, but the bulk of the storage on this flash drive is >> taken up with my genealogy folder which make is >> pretty much useless. Can anyone tell me how to >> get rid of it please? >> >> Regards >> Judith >> >> >> >> :-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~: >> >> Take pity on Digest subscribers and remember to SNIP when replying. >> >> :-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~: >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> COMPUTERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > -- > -------- > K. Ross > kr5927@gmail.com > > >