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Explore.exe crashing when i try to move folder's with short name's

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First post, by Nic-93

Posted on 2016-03-27, 02:54

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Hiya guy's i know its not quiet related to the forum here but i hope atleast some of you can shine some light about my situation, ive downloaded this D64 file collection once a while back and most of the directories on it are lettor sorted, when i try to copy or just rename a folder of the collection, explore.exe restart's, i frogot to note its the latest windows im doing it from.

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Reply 1 of 5, by clueless1

Posted on 2016-03-27, 03:01

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Did you scan this file collection for viruses? Try booting into Safe Mode and see if it does the same there.

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Reply 2 of 5, by Nic-93

Posted on 2016-03-27, 03:11

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clueless1 wrote:
Did you scan this file collection for viruses? Try booting into Safe Mode and see if it does the same there.

all the folder's contain really are .D64 file's.

Reply 3 of 5, by leileilol

Posted on 2016-03-27, 03:23

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Scandisk you're hard drive's to correct you're file allocation table's
If that fail's you can deltree the folder's from dos prompt's
You could try using winfile aka file manager's a carry over from Window's 3.11 For Workgroup's to delete the folder's

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Reply 4 of 5, by clueless1

Posted on 2016-03-27, 04:22

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Nic-93 wrote:
clueless1 wrote:
Did you scan this file collection for viruses? Try booting into Safe Mode and see if it does the same there.

all the folder's contain really are .D64 file's.

Sorry, I wasn't familiar with the .D64 file extension and you didn't say which version of Windows.

leileilol gives good advice. You can still boot to Safe Mode and try the copy/rename process from there. Also check Event Viewer to see if there are any clues when Explorer crashes.

Reply 5 of 5, by Nic-93

Posted on 2016-03-27, 04:34

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clueless1 wrote:
Nic-93 wrote:
clueless1 wrote:
Did you scan this file collection for viruses? Try booting into Safe Mode and see if it does the same there.

all the folder's contain really are .D64 file's.

Sorry, I wasn't familiar with the .D64 file extension and you didn't say which version of Windows.

leileilol gives good advice. You can still boot to Safe Mode and try the copy/rename process from there. Also check Event Viewer to see if there are any clues when Explorer crashes.

Not a problem, theyre disk image dump's of commodore 64 game's.

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