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Windows: Error: Cannot read from the source file or disk, Could not find this item. This is no longer locate…

Hi,

difficult Windows issue today. A user had the problem that he could not delete a Folder (C:\Temp\orders) , also renaming or moving is not possible. The same behaviour with the command line tools rmdir, ren and move.
The folder was created from Excel with a vba macro.

Error message: Cannot read from source file or disk
Error message: Cannot read from source file or disk

The error message was: Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk.
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