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How can I delete a folder whose name contains a drive letter?
John Savill
April 6, 2003
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A. A reader recently contacted me regarding a problem that occurred when he misformed a Robocopy command and accidentally created a folder named "Y:DESTINATION /" with a subdirectory of "MIR". The misformed command was
robocopy "X:SOURCEDIR" "Y:DESTINATION /MIR /SECNotice that a double-quote is missing at the end of the command.
When the user viewed the folder using Windows Explorer, the folder simply appeared with the name "DESTINATION" instead of the folder's true name. To delete the folder, perform the following steps:
Start a command session by going to Start, Run and typing
cmdNavigate to the location where the folder exists.
Run the command
rmdir "Y:DESTINATION /" /sto remove the problematic folder.
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