Windows 10 - Could not find this item when deleting directory

 

If you encounter "Could not find this item" and you could not delete the folder no matter what you do from the Windows Explorer, you may want to try rd command.





Windows being Windows, there are many reason for you to encounter this issue (ranging from invalid fold path to invalid files within the directory). 

To solve this issue, you could

  1. Open Command Prompt (cmd) from Windows Search Bar
  2. Navigate to the parent directory of the troubled folder
  3. Run 

rd /s "the trouble folder"


The directory including the sub directory will be removed

See Microsoft rd command

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