File won't rename.. maybe someone knows the answer..

yuppicide

We have Windows 2003 SBS to login, store files, etc. Individually our machines in the office are Windows XP Pro. We all have Admin rights.

I have some files stored on the network drive. They're all JPG's and in different directories.

Yesterday I started a task someone gave me. Make a new folder, within that make some other folders, copy JPG files into the correct folder, rename them the correct way. Have to make sure we have a nice picture of everything in our new catalog, in case we need to email it to someone.

So, I did that. Yesterday everything was working fine. I created a folder "0 PB 2011". My boss wanted the 0 in front so it shows up first in Explorer. Within that I have 5 folders. Four of the with JPG's and one with a PDF.

Now this lady gets the idea to rename that "0 PB 2011" folder. Won't work. It says "Cannot rename 0 PB 2011: Access is denied. Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and that the file is not currently in use.". I tried renaming it from multiple computers. It won't delete either. I tried the program "Unlocker" and it says it's not locked. I tried using Process Explorer and Handle from MS Technet, but don't see it there.

This happened once before, but I don't remember how I solved it.

I can go into that folder and rename the folders inside, as well as the files. I just can't rename the parent folder "0 PB 2011".

So, this lady says it's me and only happens when I do it. So, on her computer she decided to make a copy of this whole thing and try to rename it. She got sidetracked with someone else, so I sat down and renamed it "00 cat monkey" that worked, but after that I tried to rename it again and it gave me the error. It wouldn't let her machine delete it either. I went to my machine and was able to delete it.

So, I'm stuck with that "0 PB 2011" and can't figure out how to rename it. I can't reboot the server since only our Network Consultant has access and we'd have to do it when we close tonight so we don't lose any time.

matttrax

You have tried absolutely everything I would have. I'm surprised Process Explorer didn't turn anything up.

Savatage

How about create a new folder with the name you want. Drag all the subfolders from the incorrectly named folder to the new folder. Now once the Incorrectly named folder has no more subfolders, try to delete it.

kapamarou

Some times when I experience the same issue it is caused by Windows generating thumbnails. Also you might check if the OS is indexing the files. Maybe some file is locked then released and another one is locked so you don't notice it.