ERROR: Failed to remove reparse point

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ERROR: Failed to remove reparse point

RickCopithorne opened this issue 4 years ago · 3 comments

Trying to use these to delete some unwanted NAS files copied onto a clean Windows 2016 partition. Files over the 256 character limit have been a pain. When I try to run this command against large directories or files i get the error

Answer 1 · 2020-07-21T18:38:33.000Z

Hey,

Can you please run it with --printStackTrace and post the entire error here?

Marcel

Answer 2 · 2020-07-21T18:41:34.000Z

Error: System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception (0x80004005): The directory name is invalid. Failed to remove reparse point

at SuperDelete.Internal.FileDeleter.ThrowLastErrorException(Int32 error, String message, Object[] args)
at SuperDelete.Internal.FileDeleter.DeleteFolder(String folderPath, Boolean bypassAclCheck, FileAttributes parentAttributes)
at SuperDelete.Internal.FileDeleter.DeleteFolder(String folderPath, Boolean bypassAclCheck, FileAttributes parentAttributes)
at SuperDelete.Internal.FileDeleter.DeleteFolder(String folderPath, Boolean bypassAclCheck, FileAttributes parentAttributes)
at SuperDelete.Internal.FileDeleter.DeleteFolder(String folderPath, Boolean bypassAclCheck, FileAttributes parentAttributes)
at SuperDelete.Internal.FileDeleter.DeleteFolder(String folderPath, Boolean bypassAclCheck, FileAttributes parentAttributes)
at SuperDelete.Internal.FileDeleter.DeleteFolder(String folderPath, Boolean bypassAclCheck, FileAttributes parentAttributes)
at SuperDelete.Internal.FileDeleter.DeleteFolder(String folderPath, Boolean bypassAclCheck, FileAttributes parentAttributes)
at SuperDelete.Program.Main(String[] args)
Done. Deleted 0 files and 0 folders in 00:00:00.

Answer 3 · 2020-07-21T18:44:31.000Z

I had to remove the output showing path name as it contained sensitive info,here is a visual blacked out.