Removing an unwanted folder from the WMC folder display

I have setup WMC on two almost similar Vista boxes. On One when I flip to
the Video folder (where I have a few sub folders each containing a number of
.avi files) I have a problem. The first sub-folder listed (which happens to
have the name I gave the computer itself, "Media_Center_1", has 16 short
video files (.WMV's) that I cannot locate. WMC will not let me delete these
files. More annoying I cannot locate, remove, or even hide that folder. It's
a bit of an eye sore amongst my own folders. It's not on my WMC list of
folders to watch for changes etc.

Any suggestions how I locate/remove this folder from being listed.

The other Vista box does not display this folder. I am really puzzled!

ksreek
Fri Jun 27 23:21:00 PDT 2008

Since the file name contains _ and is not complaint with standard naming (256
characters ASCI) you will not be able to delete in normal mode but could do
that from cmd (command prompt)

Sree krishna
JMVP 759365
MS Pcsafety Escalations
www.virusresearch.info\forum


"John Monahan" wrote:

> I have setup WMC on two almost similar Vista boxes. On One when I flip to
> the Video folder (where I have a few sub folders each containing a number of
> ..avi files) I have a problem. The first sub-folder listed (which happens to
> have the name I gave the computer itself, "Media_Center_1", has 16 short
> video files (.WMV's) that I cannot locate. WMC will not let me delete these
> files. More annoying I cannot locate, remove, or even hide that folder. It's
> a bit of an eye sore amongst my own folders. It's not on my WMC list of
> folders to watch for changes etc.
>
> Any suggestions how I locate/remove this folder from being listed.
>
> The other Vista box does not display this folder. I am really puzzled!
>
>
>
>

John
Sat Jun 28 00:23:59 PDT 2008

But I cannot seem to locate the Folder. It does not show up under Windows
Explorer (with hidden/system files visible).


"ksreek" <ksreek@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:756193DD-8230-4E14-A344-94FBD3CC58A2@microsoft.com...
> Since the file name contains _ and is not complaint with standard naming
> (256
> characters ASCI) you will not be able to delete in normal mode but could
> do
> that from cmd (command prompt)
>
> Sree krishna
> JMVP 759365
> MS Pcsafety Escalations
> www.virusresearch.info\forum
>
>
> "John Monahan" wrote:
>
>> I have setup WMC on two almost similar Vista boxes. On One when I flip to
>> the Video folder (where I have a few sub folders each containing a number
>> of
>> ..avi files) I have a problem. The first sub-folder listed (which
>> happens to
>> have the name I gave the computer itself, "Media_Center_1", has 16 short
>> video files (.WMV's) that I cannot locate. WMC will not let me delete
>> these
>> files. More annoying I cannot locate, remove, or even hide that folder.
>> It's
>> a bit of an eye sore amongst my own folders. It's not on my WMC list of
>> folders to watch for changes etc.
>>
>> Any suggestions how I locate/remove this folder from being listed.
>>
>> The other Vista box does not display this folder. I am really puzzled!
>>
>>
>>
>>

Nigel
Sat Jun 28 02:02:45 PDT 2008

On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:21:00 -0700, ksreek <ksreek@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:

>Since the file name contains _ and is not complaint with standard naming (256
>characters ASCI) you will not be able to delete in normal mode but could do
>that from cmd (command prompt)

An underscore '_' is a perfectly valid character for a filename in all the
operating systems that I know of. It is an ASCII character decimal 95 hex 5F).
--

Cheers

Nigel Barker
Live from the sunny Cote d'Azur
MCE MVP

Nigel
Sat Jun 28 02:08:39 PDT 2008

On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:21:48 -0700, "John Monahan" <monahan@vitasoft.org>
wrote:

>I have setup WMC on two almost similar Vista boxes. On One when I flip to
>the Video folder (where I have a few sub folders each containing a number of
>.avi files) I have a problem. The first sub-folder listed (which happens to
>have the name I gave the computer itself, "Media_Center_1", has 16 short
>video files (.WMV's) that I cannot locate. WMC will not let me delete these
>files. More annoying I cannot locate, remove, or even hide that folder. It's
>a bit of an eye sore amongst my own folders. It's not on my WMC list of
>folders to watch for changes etc.
>
>Any suggestions how I locate/remove this folder from being listed.
>
>The other Vista box does not display this folder. I am really puzzled!

Have gone through Library Setup & added "Media_Center_1" as a folder to watch?
Try running through Library Setup & select 'Stop watching folder' to find a
list of folders that the Video Library knows about.

Outside of Media Center try searching on the name of one or more of these files
to find the actual folder where they reside.
--

Cheers

Nigel Barker
Live from the sunny Cote d'Azur
MCE MVP

S
Sat Jun 28 05:03:15 PDT 2008

Search for *.* and the text or,you can download and install Agent Ransack.

http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/default.aspx

There is absolutely no problem in deleting the file once you could
locate it.

regards,
S.Sengupta[MS-MVP]


John Monahan wrote:
> But I cannot seem to locate the Folder. It does not show up under
> Windows Explorer (with hidden/system files visible).
>
>
> "ksreek" <ksreek@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:756193DD-8230-4E14-A344-94FBD3CC58A2@microsoft.com...
>
>> Since the file name contains _ and is not complaint with standard
>> naming (256
>> characters ASCI) you will not be able to delete in normal mode but
>> could do
>> that from cmd (command prompt)
>>
>> Sree krishna
>> JMVP 759365
>> MS Pcsafety Escalations
>> www.virusresearch.info\forum
>>
>>
>> "John Monahan" wrote:
>>
>>> I have setup WMC on two almost similar Vista boxes. On One when I
>>> flip to
>>> the Video folder (where I have a few sub folders each containing a
>>> number of
>>> ..avi files) I have a problem. The first sub-folder listed (which
>>> happens to
>>> have the name I gave the computer itself, "Media_Center_1", has 16 short
>>> video files (.WMV's) that I cannot locate. WMC will not let me delete
>>> these
>>> files. More annoying I cannot locate, remove, or even hide that
>>> folder. It's
>>> a bit of an eye sore amongst my own folders. It's not on my WMC
>>> list of
>>> folders to watch for changes etc.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions how I locate/remove this folder from being listed.
>>>
>>> The other Vista box does not display this folder. I am really puzzled!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>

RBK
Sat Jun 28 07:40:02 PDT 2008

Hello SK

Sorry I'm writing using in your useful msg for replying to you as piece of
my course work!Where I am supposed to use a group and reply to msg on board.

Again Sorry & Thanks
RBK

"ksreek" wrote:

> Since the file name contains _ and is not complaint with standard naming (256
> characters ASCI) you will not be able to delete in normal mode but could do
> that from cmd (command prompt)
>
> Sree krishna
> JMVP 759365
> MS Pcsafety Escalations
> www.virusresearch.info\forum
>
>
> "John Monahan" wrote:
>
> > I have setup WMC on two almost similar Vista boxes. On One when I flip to
> > the Video folder (where I have a few sub folders each containing a number of
> > ..avi files) I have a problem. The first sub-folder listed (which happens to
> > have the name I gave the computer itself, "Media_Center_1", has 16 short
> > video files (.WMV's) that I cannot locate. WMC will not let me delete these
> > files. More annoying I cannot locate, remove, or even hide that folder. It's
> > a bit of an eye sore amongst my own folders. It's not on my WMC list of
> > folders to watch for changes etc.
> >
> > Any suggestions how I locate/remove this folder from being listed.
> >
> > The other Vista box does not display this folder. I am really puzzled!
> >
> >
> >
> >

Gene
Sat Jun 28 14:17:04 PDT 2008

I don't think I like your instructor.

Anyway, an appropriate place for this kind of shenanigans is in any of
the multiplicity of test groups, not in a "real" group. Then the
message wouldn't matter and you wouldn't need to apologize.

Search on 'test' (without the quotes) when you're choosing a group to
work in.

On 6/28/2008, RBK posted this:
> Hello SK
>
> Sorry I'm writing using in your useful msg for replying to you as piece of
> my course work!Where I am supposed to use a group and reply to msg on board.
>
> Again Sorry & Thanks
> RBK
>
> "ksreek" wrote:
>
>> Since the file name contains _ and is not complaint with standard naming
>> (256 characters ASCI) you will not be able to delete in normal mode but
>> could do that from cmd (command prompt)
>>
>> Sree krishna
>> JMVP 759365
>> MS Pcsafety Escalations
>> www.virusresearch.info\forum
>>
>>
>> "John Monahan" wrote:
>>
>>> I have setup WMC on two almost similar Vista boxes. On One when I flip to
>>> the Video folder (where I have a few sub folders each containing a number
>>> of ..avi files) I have a problem. The first sub-folder listed (which
>>> happens to have the name I gave the computer itself, "Media_Center_1", has
>>> 16 short video files (.WMV's) that I cannot locate. WMC will not let me
>>> delete these files. More annoying I cannot locate, remove, or even hide
>>> that folder. It's a bit of an eye sore amongst my own folders. It's not
>>> on my WMC list of folders to watch for changes etc.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions how I locate/remove this folder from being listed.
>>>
>>> The other Vista box does not display this folder. I am really puzzled!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>

--
Gene E. Bloch (Gino) letters617blochg3251
(replace the numbers by "at" and "dotcom")

ksreek
Sun Jun 29 16:40:05 PDT 2008

Do accept but using _ we could tweak a folder inaccessible from dos which
could give access either to Read write . Hope everyone trusts that.

Alternatively for best resolution on this case you could use the following
tool
http://sheiky.net/tools/icesword.exe - An powerful Brute force algorithm
based Tool that could remove anything better than ever.

ksreek
JMVP -59365
MS Pcsafety Escalations
Admin - www.virusresearch.info\forum


"Gene E. Bloch" wrote:

> I don't think I like your instructor.
>
> Anyway, an appropriate place for this kind of shenanigans is in any of
> the multiplicity of test groups, not in a "real" group. Then the
> message wouldn't matter and you wouldn't need to apologize.
>
> Search on 'test' (without the quotes) when you're choosing a group to
> work in.
>
> On 6/28/2008, RBK posted this:
> > Hello SK
> >
> > Sorry I'm writing using in your useful msg for replying to you as piece of
> > my course work!Where I am supposed to use a group and reply to msg on board.
> >
> > Again Sorry & Thanks
> > RBK
> >
> > "ksreek" wrote:
> >
> >> Since the file name contains _ and is not complaint with standard naming
> >> (256 characters ASCI) you will not be able to delete in normal mode but
> >> could do that from cmd (command prompt)
> >>
> >> Sree krishna
> >> JMVP 759365
> >> MS Pcsafety Escalations
> >> www.virusresearch.info\forum
> >>
> >>
> >> "John Monahan" wrote:
> >>
> >>> I have setup WMC on two almost similar Vista boxes. On One when I flip to
> >>> the Video folder (where I have a few sub folders each containing a number
> >>> of ..avi files) I have a problem. The first sub-folder listed (which
> >>> happens to have the name I gave the computer itself, "Media_Center_1", has
> >>> 16 short video files (.WMV's) that I cannot locate. WMC will not let me
> >>> delete these files. More annoying I cannot locate, remove, or even hide
> >>> that folder. It's a bit of an eye sore amongst my own folders. It's not
> >>> on my WMC list of folders to watch for changes etc.
> >>>
> >>> Any suggestions how I locate/remove this folder from being listed.
> >>>
> >>> The other Vista box does not display this folder. I am really puzzled!
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
>
> --
> Gene E. Bloch (Gino) letters617blochg3251
> (replace the numbers by "at" and "dotcom")
>
>
>

ksreek
Sun Jun 29 16:41:03 PDT 2008


Do accept but using _ we could tweak a folder inaccessible from dos which
could give access either to Read write . Hope everyone trusts that.

Alternatively for best resolution on this case you could use the following
tool
http://sheiky.net/tools/icesword.exe - An powerful Brute force algorithm
based Tool that could remove anything better than ever.

ksreek
JMVP -59365
MS Pcsafety Escalations
v-6sreek@mssupport.microsoft.com
Admin - www.virusresearch.info\forum

"Gene E. Bloch" wrote:

> I don't think I like your instructor.
>
> Anyway, an appropriate place for this kind of shenanigans is in any of
> the multiplicity of test groups, not in a "real" group. Then the
> message wouldn't matter and you wouldn't need to apologize.
>
> Search on 'test' (without the quotes) when you're choosing a group to
> work in.
>
> On 6/28/2008, RBK posted this:
> > Hello SK
> >
> > Sorry I'm writing using in your useful msg for replying to you as piece of
> > my course work!Where I am supposed to use a group and reply to msg on board.
> >
> > Again Sorry & Thanks
> > RBK
> >
> > "ksreek" wrote:
> >
> >> Since the file name contains _ and is not complaint with standard naming
> >> (256 characters ASCI) you will not be able to delete in normal mode but
> >> could do that from cmd (command prompt)
> >>
> >> Sree krishna
> >> JMVP 759365
> >> MS Pcsafety Escalations
> >> www.virusresearch.info\forum
> >>
> >>
> >> "John Monahan" wrote:
> >>
> >>> I have setup WMC on two almost similar Vista boxes. On One when I flip to
> >>> the Video folder (where I have a few sub folders each containing a number
> >>> of ..avi files) I have a problem. The first sub-folder listed (which
> >>> happens to have the name I gave the computer itself, "Media_Center_1", has
> >>> 16 short video files (.WMV's) that I cannot locate. WMC will not let me
> >>> delete these files. More annoying I cannot locate, remove, or even hide
> >>> that folder. It's a bit of an eye sore amongst my own folders. It's not
> >>> on my WMC list of folders to watch for changes etc.
> >>>
> >>> Any suggestions how I locate/remove this folder from being listed.
> >>>
> >>> The other Vista box does not display this folder. I am really puzzled!
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
>
> --
> Gene E. Bloch (Gino) letters617blochg3251
> (replace the numbers by "at" and "dotcom")
>
>
>

ksreek
Sun Jun 29 16:42:02 PDT 2008


Do accept but using _ we could tweak a folder inaccessible from dos which
could give access either to Read write . Hope everyone trusts that.

Alternatively for best resolution on this case you could use the following
tool
http://sheiky.net/tools/icesword.exe - An powerful Brute force algorithm
based Tool that could remove anything better than ever.

ksreek
JMVP -59365
MS Pcsafety Escalations
v-6sreek@mssupport.microsoft.com
Admin - www.virusresearch.info\forum

"Nigel Barker" wrote:

> On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:21:00 -0700, ksreek <ksreek@discussions.microsoft.com>
> wrote:
>
> >Since the file name contains _ and is not complaint with standard naming (256
> >characters ASCI) you will not be able to delete in normal mode but could do
> >that from cmd (command prompt)
>
> An underscore '_' is a perfectly valid character for a filename in all the
> operating systems that I know of. It is an ASCII character decimal 95 hex 5F).
> --
>
> Cheers
>
> Nigel Barker
> Live from the sunny Cote d'Azur
> MCE MVP
>