Windows – Unable to delete folders from Mac archive on Windows

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I extracted a zip file, but found that I cannot delete the extracted folders afterwards. Including the actual file folder and the __MACOSX folder.

If I shift-delete these files, nothing happens. If I try to delete them normally, I get an error message that says

"Could not find this item. This is no longer located in C:…"

My friend is on MacOS, not sure which version, while I'm running Windows 10 on NTFS.

How can I force delete these folders?

Best Answer

Found the solution myself:

Open a command prompt from the lowest-level child directory
Enter "dir /x" to see the content
Manually delete the files/folders using the 8.3 file names
Repeat as necessary until the parent directory can be deleted as well

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No need to boot into Linux; you can use the special \\?\ syntax to remove this directory (if it's empty) from the command prompt:

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ren YUKI~1 Yuki

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