I am on Windows 10. I wanted to delete a Windows.old folder because it takes up too much space ( 20 GB+). The system won’t let me access the folder. I tried the usual process of taking ownership , but it keeps asking for permissions. I’ve always done this with no problems. I even tried the CMD : style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:#313131'>takeown /f "C:\path\to\folder" /r /d y but it says “ file /directory not found “.
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:#313131'>In my case the windows.old folder is under the root, i.e. c:\windows.old, so I typed he command as :
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:#313131'>takeown */f* “c:\windows.old” */r */d* y
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:#313131'>( the * asterisk means I left a space)
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:#313131'>I also get a message: “failed to enumerate objects in the container”.
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:#313131'>
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:#313131'>Can you help, please?
"Times New Roman";color:#313131'>takeown /f "C:\path\to\folder" /r /d y but it says “ file /directory not found “.
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:#313131'>In my case the windows.old folder is under the root, i.e. c:\windows.old, so I typed he command as :
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:#313131'>takeown */f* “c:\windows.old” */r */d* y
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:#313131'>( the * asterisk means I left a space)
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:#313131'>I also get a message: “failed to enumerate objects in the container”.
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:#313131'>
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:#313131'>Can you help, please?