Deleting files in Vista – what the hell is going on?
So, if you delete a file – it’s deleted right? OK – so it first goes to the recycle bin, but really, it shouldn’t be visible to applications. Not any more – at least in Windows Vista. Is this the “Previous Version” feature gone wrong?
I can access the file in question via Mozilla Firefox and a number of other non-MS applications, but it is invisible to see in Internet Explorer and command prompt. I’m going to try to recreate a working example of this problem so others can see it…
Agh – I can’t for the life of me recreate another working example. However, just be warned that if you experience bugs in an application running in Vista where it seems to be pulling data from a nonexistent file, that file might in fact still exist! The way I ended up solving my bug problem was by using Mozilla Firefox’s “Open file” dialog box to surf to the problematic file, and then deleting the file by right clicking on it. Psycho! The weirdest part was that while I could plainly see this file in the dialog box, using Internet explorer or any other Microsoft application hid the file from me – and I have “show hidden files” enabled!