Ok, so I had this file on my Desktop since… alwasy I guess. Zero bytes in size and every single time when I tried to remove it I got this awesome and super explicit error:
Could not find this item
. Yet the file was there!
The solution is very simple:
- Open command prompt (win+r => cmd or shift+right click on folder => open command prompt);
- Type
dir /x
. This will list files in an shorter format, 8.3 (if you are over 20-25 years old, you probably have no idea what’s that; that’s ok, go watch American Idol or something) - Now, instead of
Your impossible to delete
file you will only haveYOURIM~1
or so. (dir
command won’t byte, i promise you!) del YOURIM~1
- Done!
Thanks Microsoft!