Delete File

[britinva]

I inadvertantly saved a file under /Root/Data/ and cannot delete. Assume thats a protected directory.

Anyone know how to delete?

 

[Tom T]

If you were able to write to the directory you should have read/write priveledges. Have you rooted the device? If so something like Root Explorer or another file manager like ES File explorer should be able to deal with it.

 

[britinva]

Not rooted and tried both the 'My Files' and 'ES File Exporer'.

 

[Tom T]

How did you write to the particular directory in the first place?

 

[britinva]

copy & paste from one directory to another using ES File Explorer

 

[leeshor]

Something tells me a part of the story is missing or you have a serious problem. Did you purchase it new?

 

[britinva]

Yes, this was purchased new, never rooted. What happened was I was dragging file from one directory to another and it dropped in wrong folder. I can copy it into another folder but if I select file, click delete and then confim I want to delete I get message cannot delete file.

 

[leeshor]

Check the link below on file transfers to see if something there allows you to even access the file or possibly delete it.

 

[britinva]

Its very bizzare.... both the /data folder and the file when view properties say readable and writeable...... but no mater what I try cannot delete the file. I can play the file (its a video). Would not be over concerned if was not a 700M file so big waste of space.

Guess may need to back everything up the do factory reset.