Weird file delete problem
 

My co-worker is attempting to delete a bunch of files from his hard drive, specifically by going into My Documents, clicking on one or more of the file icons, and then either hitting the Delete key or deleting them via the drop-down menu. Things go like normal - the files disappear, and show up in the Recycle Bin - but then reappear as copies in the original directory. He's done it over and over and he now has like 150 (seriously) copied versions in his directory. The file names are all like: "Copy(87) of file.doc"

Anyway, he asked me to help with it, but I've never seen such a thing. Sounds buggy to me. Any ideas?

Sounds kinda viral.

Or, if not, maybe there's something really really weird about the properties of the file(s) in question? Have you taken a look at the properties to see if they're read/write protected funny somehow (never heard of such a thing as undeletable but ... who knows)?

Or, failing that, is this file shared on a network somehow? If so, maybe someone else on the network has a copy of this file open & therefore he can't trash it because it's in use (again, never heard of something quite like this but it seems at least barely plausible).

Thanks for the reply.

They're not shared network files. Also, he said that it happens if he control-clicks a bunch of files to delete, but not if he deletes them one at a time.

If he hasn't already, try deleting them without putting them in the recycle bin (shift+delete) See if that fixes it.

maybe he has sticky keys enabled?