How to Delete Network Folder With Thumbs.Db File In Windows 10/8/7 FIX
65How to Delete Network Folder With Thumbs.Db File In Windows 10/8/7 FIX.
Even though both Windows and its users have made the jump to the 21st century, there’s still some lingering 1990s-era annoyances hiding out in the OS including Windows’ tenacious desire to create thumbnail files (and then refusing to delete them). Read on as we solve the “File In Use” deletion error problem.
When you’re tidying files, deleting older archives, or otherwise cleaning up after yourself it’s not uncommon to run into the very annoying “File In Use” error. The way the error crops up usually goes like this. You look at a folder, decide you no longer need said folder and its contents, but when you attempt to delete the folder you get an error message that looks like this.
Windows sometimes creates a thumbs.db file for a specific folder to quickly display thumbnails. You will only see the thumbs.db files if you set Windows/File Explorer to show hidden files, but they are there. On a modern PC, they are completely harmless… and useless. But they can cause problems.
This tutorial will apply for computers, laptops, desktops,and tablets running the Windows 10, Windows 8/8.1, Windows 7 operating systems.Works for all major computer manufactures (Dell, HP, Acer, Asus, Toshiba, Lenovo, Samsung).