Settings.dat File

s3dbw · Regular Visitor Joined: May 07, 2004 Posts: 203

How do you delete this file? The file on my machine has become corrupted but it wont let me delete or overwrite?

Any thoughts?

Thanks

mikealder · Posted: Fri May 29, 2009 7:17 am Post subject:

Have you tried right clicking it then selecting "Rename" change the name to anything you want - Mike

s3dbw · Regular Visitor Joined: May 07, 2004 Posts: 203

Hi Mike,

Tried that, while it was happy to rename, the damn thing still wouldn't delete for some reason.

mikealder · Posted: Fri May 29, 2009 7:36 am Post subject:

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

s3dbw · Regular Visitor Joined: May 07, 2004 Posts: 203

Cheers Mike, will give it a try

regards

PaulB2005 · Posted: Fri May 29, 2009 8:08 am Post subject:

If you do that after you shut down and rstart the unit you might (should) be able to delete the old file.

s3dbw · Regular Visitor Joined: May 07, 2004 Posts: 203

Finally got rid of them, letting windows do a disk check did the trick, some corruption on the drive

Thanks

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