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Cannot Delete Item "Could Not Find This Item" issue

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Mar 15, 202696880 views
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Problem

A friend sent a long a file (a .rar) he wanted me to check out for him before he installed it. I downloaded it and unrared it with no problems, but it was full of .exe's instead of the intended contents (fonts) so I advised him to delete it immediately and not use. I then proceeded to do the same, …

Error Output

Could not find this item

This is no longer located in C:\Users\This_User\Desktop. verify the item's
location and try again.

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Fix for: Cannot Delete Item "Could Not Find This Item" issue

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I know you said that you tried deleting the shortname of the file and it didn't work for you, but it does work for some forms of this problem. It worked for me. So for the sake of completeness I am mentioning it here. Step by step: press windows key…

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