mummified mail files

David Elkins · Post by **David Elkins** » Wed Jun 16, 1999 9:38 pm

Anthony San,

Hello. I wanted to extract a posting that I had made to a MA discussion (ugghhhh) group and it is to be found in a folo___pmm file. I'm unable to open this or to even delete it from "my documents." Any suggestions?

Any chance of progress on the Chou Tzu Ho stone critter?

Take care,

David

Dakkon · Post by **Dakkon** » Thu Jun 17, 1999 8:35 am

Hello David,
What is the error that windozes gives you?
If you go to the file threw explore and right click on it and select delete it does not allow you? Try doing a right click and select properties and see if its a system file.
If it is un check the box and try to delete it again.

Regards,
Chuck

David Elkins · Post by **David Elkins** » Thu Jun 17, 1999 7:02 pm

Chuck and Anthony,

Thanks for the suggestions. I is it is a general file. I unclicked all the boxes at the bottom re: read only, archive, etc. The message is: Access denied. Make sure that the disc is not full or write protected and that the file is not currently in use.

I closed Pegasus so that there wouldn't be a chance that it would be considered in use and it still doesn't delete.

My first priority is to open it and extract what I wrote to use elsewhere. Secondarily failing this (or if I am successful) I want to delete it from My Docs.

Any other suggestions?

Anthony, thanks. Whatever you can do on the figure would be great.

David

David Elkins · Post by **David Elkins** » Sat Jun 19, 1999 5:40 am

I just don't get it. I went to find the path (Tao?) and progressed from My computer to C drive to My Documents. There it was, the file in question. I thought maybe I can zap it from here, so I tried and it worked.

Question: if I can't zap it from the My Doc. icon desk top shortcut, why was I able to zap it from the same place but approaching it differently?

This may be a question for the military strategies and tactics forum.

Thanks for workin' with me. I'm still scratching my head.

David