Deleting pictures in WMP

[John]

Hi: I have tried every method found in most user groups to remove pictures .
None of them work. Most suggestions include opening WMP,
Library,Pictures,All Pictures.
Then select pictures to be deleted, right click, amen. NADA. All attempts
to delete one or many results in no action at all. Clearly, there is some
sort of corruption. Any ideas??

John

 

[Wolf K]

Hi: I have tried every method found in most user groups to remove
pictures . None of them work. Most suggestions include opening WMP,
Library,Pictures,All Pictures.
Then select pictures to be deleted, right click, amen. NADA. All
attempts to delete one or many results in no action at all. Clearly,
there is some sort of corruption. Any ideas??

John

It sounds to me like they are Read Only files, and that you may not have
Administrator rights, so first thing is to ensure your Username does
have those rights. Then you can do either of the following:

A:
Right click on a *.wmp file, click on Properties, in the bottom quarter
you should see Attributes. If the Read Only check box is solid, click on
it. Close the properties pane, and delete the file. If it deletes, then
highlight all the *.wmp files you want to delete, right click on
Properties, unmark the Read Only box, then delete them all at once.

B:
Open the command line window, navigate to the folder(s) with *.wmp
files, then enter:

attrib -s -r -a *.wmp

When the flashing cursor reappears, issue:

del *.wmp.

That should do it.

HTH&GoodLuck

 

[John]

Thanks...but no luck. The "Attributes" does not exist. BTW, I am using the
Professional edition of Win 7, if that makes any difference.
I can click on any file in the WMP list, Properties, length = 00:00. And it
will not delete. Under Media Usage Rights of the "properties" it states
"This file is missing media usage rights". Also note, if I am in WMP ,
right click a file, open file location. Nothing happens. The file does not
exist. Basically, I have many groups of files (pictures) listed in WMP that
does cannot be found.

John

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

Thanks...but no luck. The "Attributes" does not exist. BTW, I am using the
Professional edition of Win 7, if that makes any difference.
I can click on any file in the WMP list, Properties, length = 00:00. And it
will not delete. Under Media Usage Rights of the "properties" it states
"This file is missing media usage rights". Also note, if I am in WMP ,
right click a file, open file location. Nothing happens. The file does not
exist. Basically, I have many groups of files (pictures) listed in WMP that
does cannot be found.

John

View a file in Explorer. If you right click on the file name in WMP, you
can choose "Open file location", which gets you to Explorer.

 

[John]

My last post stated that I tried "Open file location"Open File Location".
Nothing happens. !!

 

[Wolf K]

Thanks...but no luck. The "Attributes" does not exist. BTW, I am using
the Professional edition of Win 7, if that makes any difference.

No difference.

I can click on any file in the WMP list, Properties, length = 00:00. And
it will not delete. Under Media Usage Rights of the "properties" it
states "This file is missing media usage rights". Also note, if I am in
WMP , right click a file, open file location. Nothing happens. The file
does not exist. Basically, I have many groups of files (pictures) listed
in WMP that does cannot be found.

John

First, quote at least part of the post you are replying to, so that the
discussion makes sense.

Second, you didn't say that you were looking at files names in the WMP
list. I assumed you were talking about file names listed in Explorer.
It's now clear that Explorer cannot see the files, therefore they do not
exist. So why does WMP list them? My guess is that it maintains an
internal list, an index file.

I don't use WMP as as a picture viewer/organiser, so I can't tell you
what to do. I suspect that the index file has been corrupted. If that's
so, the cure would likely be to delete the index file. WMP should
rebuild it next time you open it. WMP experts confirm that, please!

Hope this brings us a step closer to a correct analysis of the problem

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

My last post stated that I tried "Open file location"Open File Location".
Nothing happens. !!

Oops...Sorry. It was good advice, but misdirected

 

[Nil]

Hi: I have tried every method found in most user groups to remove
pictures . None of them work. Most suggestions include opening
WMP, Library,Pictures,All Pictures.
Then select pictures to be deleted, right click, amen. NADA. All
attempts to delete one or many results in no action at all.
Clearly, there is some sort of corruption. Any ideas??

Try this to force Windows Media Player to rebuild its index:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925718

 

[Wolf K]

Try this to force Windows Media Player to rebuild its index:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925718

Just as I suspected: index is corrupted, and "Note Windows Media Player
automatically rebuilds the database. "

This seems to be a common program design feature.

 

[John]

Thanks. I'll delete, and allow WMP to rebuild.

"Wolf K" wrote in message

Try this to force Windows Media Player to rebuild its index:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925718

Just as I suspected: index is corrupted, and "Note Windows Media Player
automatically rebuilds the database. "

This seems to be a common program design feature.