[NatGeo]

I recently upgraded to Vista Ultimate. As usual windows saved a copy of the older version - Vista Home Premium. It saved it as $INPLACE.~TR and now I cant remove it. I've tried everything I can think of and I cant delete it. Its occupying 30GB of my hard drive and its driving me crazy!Disk cleanup shuts down every time I run it saying it has encountered a problem and I cant delete the old file because it tells me I dont have permission even when I'm logged on as the administrator. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[joeten]

hi and welcome to TSF try this http://www.tipandtrick.net/2008/how...ol-permissions-of-files-and-folders-in-vista/

 

[NatGeo]

Thanks very much for the advice. I changed ownership and thought all was going smoothly until the usual Destination Folder Access Denied - You need permission to perform this action - came up. I've checked everything again but still no joy. Any other suggestions?

 

[deleted122510]

Consider this an early Christmas present.

 

[jenae]

Hi, you should be able to remove these with disk cleanup you need to run "cleanmgr tuneup" from the run command this gives you an advanced disk cleanup select "files discarded by windows upgrade" then run the tool.

Folders or files that have the 8.3 naming convention need to be run with their full file name to delete (many people have this problem with 0 byte files) to find this use a command prompt (run as administrator). Navigate to the directory where the file is located (ie for example lets say the file name was AUTOBA~1 and it was located in C:\Windows\ERDNT)

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6000]
Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

C:\Windows\system32>cd c:\windows\erdnt

c:\Windows\ERDNT>dir /x
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is 249F-3961

 Directory of c:\Windows\ERDNT

08/07/2008  06:04 PM    <DIR>                       .
08/07/2008  06:04 PM    <DIR>                       ..
08/07/2008  05:56 PM    <DIR>          8-07-2~1     8-07-2008
17/05/2009  09:00 AM    <DIR>          AUTOBA~1     AutoBackup
               0 File(s)              0 bytes
               4 Dir(s)  90,857,140,224 bytes free

c:\Windows\ERDNT>

NOTE:- The dir /x command this reveals both the 8.3 and full file name. The full file name is "AutoBackup" now to delete this (which I most certainly do not want to do) at the prompt
c:\Windows\ERDNT\ rd AutoBackup press enter and the folder is deleted.