Hi,
been using the extractor on many programs to get them portable. Works on most, not so on few, and rarely some of these leave a nasty gift, a small file that cannot be deleted, not by plain deleting or tools like killbox. I guess formatting would do it, but too harsh for now. Back to the files, I caught three of those by now, they have no names or extensions, are small (7kb, 26kb, and 36kb), and the only thing you can do with them is move them in moving the directory they are in. They are very sensitive and want to be left alone ("source file or disk cannot be read","directory cannot be deleted, it's not empty", like that).
The first came with Idontknowwhichprogramextraction, the second is in a folder that's called winamp5552_full_emusic-7plus_en-us, so unless it's there by mistake it came with it. The third baby I got yesterday, when extracting FileZilla_3.2.5_win32 (unnecessary, because they offer a portable, doh).
Any ideas like why and what to do against? Thanks.
Re: extracted files undeletable
No, I haven't heard of this before. I'll pull down the FileZilla and Winamp installers and see if I can replicate the problem, though. Will let you know what I find out.
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Re: extracted files undeletable
Well, I can indeed confirm this problem. The reason you can't delete the directory is because 7-Zip is creating a file with literally no name when unpacking both the FileZilla and Winamp installers. I believe both of them use NSIS, so I'd have to guess that this is due to some recent changes in NSIS that 7-Zip doesn't support (at least in the version included with UniExtract).
None of the extracted files are properly named, so it looks like support for current NSIS installers is completely busted. Which is a real shame, because as far as I'm aware 7-Zip (w/ UniExtract as a front) was the only application that supported NSIS. Oh well.
As for deleting the files/directories you're having trouble with, try this:
1. Open cmd.exe and cd to the parent directory
2. Run
del /f /q FileZilla_3.2.5_win32-setup3. Answer
ywhen prompted4. Run
rmdir FileZilla_3.2.5_win32-setupThat should take care of the stubborn files.
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Re: extracted files undeletable
Hi,
that's a good command for other occasions, too, I think. All gone.
Thanks for the help.
Seems to be a case with the older 7zip, because when I just used 7zip 4.65 the names came out correctly. Tried on winamp 5552.
edit: replacing the uniextract1.6 7zip.exe and .dll with the ones from 7zip 4.65 is enough, yip.