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Andrew just wants to open his files on Windows 10 (programming.dev)

submitted 5 months ago by starman to c/[email protected]

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https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/windows-10-why-dont-i-have-permission-to-open-my/6f33e814-3cc6-4ce6-993c-dffcf1bb5b75

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Man, I kind of feel for the poster.

A while back I was tinkering with some website and installed some npm packages.

Then I tried to delete the nodes modules folder.... NOTHING worked... Safe mode, permissions change, command line deletion,... I spend like an hour googling and raging, it's my fucking computer I put the fucking file there, let me delete it!!!

I was ready to give up and finally stumbled on the answer on stack overflow. The npm folder that was created (I forget exactly what it was) had the ~ symbol in path name and that basically made the folder invincible.

Luckily the poster also posted the command line to nuke the fucker and I was finally able to delete it.

So yea, I kinda get it. Seeing that stupid you don't have permission to delete this file pop-up is rage inducing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Always know your escape characters! Usually \ works

(I wonder how many clients show that as double backslash)