Windows 10: Error: The directory name is not valid.

Need fix for occasional error message when trying to open a saved file. Message is: The directory name is not valid.

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The directory name is invalid

Hi David,

Since you have rebuilt your computer, it may have made some changes or installed some updates that might be causing the error message "G: \The directory name is invalid". However, let's check if there is a device that you can remove in Safely Remove Hardware
utility. Follow these steps to access the utility:

• Press the Windows icon + R on your keyboard.
• Copy and paste this 'RunDll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll".
• Remove any device that you'll see in the utility.
• Restart your computer, then observe if the issue will occur again.

We're looking forward to your feedback.

 

The Directory Name Is Invalid


OK, here's my situation. I have a Western Digital (WD) My Passport Ultra external USB hard drive. I use this as a media drive on my WD TV Live Plus media player. For some unknown reason, the media player will sometimes corrupt files on the My Passport drive. The net effect is that a file is somehow changed into a directory.

The problem is when I attempted to delete/remove the corrupted file/directory, I receive a 'The directory name is invalid.' error.

I've tried the following:

• Run chkdsk /f; no errors found.
• Run WD Drive Utilities diagnostics; no errors found.
• Checked dir /x looking for an 8.3 filename; no luck.
• Taken ownership of the directory; no luck.
• Tried a few file unlocker utilities; no luck (not reported as locked and delete fails).
• Even tried an NTFS disk editor; no luck.

I've spent the last three hours googling a solution. Nothing!

Anyone else ever encountered something similar and found a solution?

 

The Directory Name is not valid

I have all my work stored on an external hard drive. I messed up and had to re-format it and then back up my work from a second external hard drive. The original hard drive was called "my passport". When I restored my work onto the original hard drive
- it called the main file "my passport". I didn't think much of it but.... any work I know save doesn't have the correct directory name it should be something like l:mypassport>>aaa aaarrg>> etc., but it just shows l:aaa aaarrg>>. How can I edit the directory
name? Please help!

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