How To: Remove Location is not available / Item not found / Could not find this item folders
#windows10 #troubleshooting
Quick video showing how to remove folders that give you a "Location is not available" error when trying to access and "Item not found" / "Could not find this item" errors trying to delete the folder in Windows 10.
You can try rebooting your machine, or running chkdsk under Administrator command line, but if that also doesn't help fix the issue then try this:
enter command line on the directory root you are trying to remove
enter "dir /x" to see a listing of the contents with their shortname form
enter "rmdir SHORTNA~1 /s" where SHORTNA~1 is your shortname folder name, this will attempt to delete the directory and any of it's contents
This was recorded on Windows 10, but it also applies to Windows NT, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Server, etc.