Saturday, 25 May 2019

windows 7 - How to delete empty folder with thumbs.db without disabling thumbnails


I often have problem to delete a folder that contains a thumbs.db file. Also tools like "unlocker" fail. It seems to be loccked by os for some unknown reason. The only solution i found in the net was to disabling thumbnails in windows but this is a bad workaround isn't it?


Is there a "normal"(or official, supported by MS) way to delete an empty folder that only contains a thumbs.db?



Answer



in meanwhile i found acceptable solution: disable "display file icons on thumbnails" in folder's view options. i think this is the cause the explorer holds an handler on thumbs.db. The problem with this is you have to re-enable this if you want.


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