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Asked: 2012-01-12 05:53:46 +0800 CST

Unable to delete a folder? Read Only Attribute locked?

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We have a Windows 2008 R2 with Oracle11g and I need to uninstall the server and to reinstall again. I was following this Oracle Uninstall guide here:
http://www.oracle-base.com/articles/misc/ManualOracleUninstall.php

Everything was going fine untill the step:

  • Delete the "C:\Oracle" directory, or whatever directory is your ORACLE_BASE.

The problem here is that I am unable to remove that directory?!

I've noticed that when R-Click->Properties the "Read Only" attribute of the folder is checked but disabled. (Now I know that that means that the attributes on the files inside the folder are READ ONLY and the folder itself is NOT). However when I remove the RO attribute, Windows spends several minutes to remove all of the Read Only attributes on the files inside the folder.. but then when i click OK the window closes, and everything is back to Read Only!!

read only disabled

I even tryed to remove those attributes frome the CMD as shown in the image bellow:

attrib

And again it spends 2-3 minutes to do the job and then the RO attribute is checked again...

Does anyone have experienced anything similar and perhaps know any suggestion regarding this issue on how can i fix this odd behavior?

UPDATE 12.01.2012:

I've succeed to delete the folder by detaching the hard drive reattaching it on another PC and deleting the folder from there. However the whole Windows 2008 crashed when I attached the HDD back to its original PC and I have to re-install everything all over again. Luckily the server was a test server only. And YES btw, the Windows repair option from the installation CD does not work :P.

Unless someone knows the REAL WAY on how to uninstall Oracle 11g, so far I can only say that this is an answer on how to NOT uninstall Oracle.

oracle-11g read-only deleting

1 Answers

  1. My experience has been that box is checked and dimmed even on empty folders that are not read-only. I have always considered it a display anomaly. I would say that the problem is elsewhere. Perhaps resetting the permissions and owner on the folder to your account full control would be a good start.

    Using a tool like SysInternals' Process Monitor is usually a good start for tracking down these issues.

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