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s3dbw Regular Visitor
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Posted: Fri May 29, 2009 6:56 am Post subject: Settings.dat File |
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How do you delete this file? The file on my machine has become corrupted but it wont let me delete or overwrite?
Any thoughts?
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mikealder Pocket GPS Moderator
Joined: Jan 14, 2005 Posts: 19638 Location: Blackpool , Lancs
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Posted: Fri May 29, 2009 7:17 am Post subject: |
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Have you tried right clicking it then selecting "Rename" change the name to anything you want - Mike |
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s3dbw Regular Visitor
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Posted: Fri May 29, 2009 7:25 am Post subject: |
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Hi Mike,
Tried that, while it was happy to rename, the damn thing still wouldn't delete for some reason. |
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mikealder Pocket GPS Moderator
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Posted: Fri May 29, 2009 7:36 am Post subject: |
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If its been renamed just leave it where it is and grab a fresh copy of the file from your backup, put that in place and the device should work again.
The only other way to get rid of it will be a full format of the drive then re-installing a full backup, this is rather a lot of effort when re-naming the rogue file should get you working - Mike |
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s3dbw Regular Visitor
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Posted: Fri May 29, 2009 7:51 am Post subject: |
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Cheers Mike, will give it a try
regards |
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PaulB2005 Pocket GPS Moderator
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Posted: Fri May 29, 2009 8:08 am Post subject: |
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If you do that after you shut down and rstart the unit you might (should) be able to delete the old file. |
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s3dbw Regular Visitor
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Posted: Fri May 29, 2009 11:17 am Post subject: |
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Finally got rid of them, letting windows do a disk check did the trick, some corruption on the drive
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