Had an accident with a file copying script that left me with a pair of folders I couldn't access or delete. They had names with an unprintable character in them, so copy, move, delete, rename, etc, even with auto name completion, would say the file didn't exist. The problem is, the standard tools doing the standard thing aren't actually *seeing* the real filename, so they can't affect it.
The trick is classic MICROS~1, literally: Open a command line, use "dir /x" to find the actual 8.3 filename, which, since it has a character that's not printable in DOS, gets rewritten as "filena~1". Which is a name that the DOS tools can address - they're all built around the idea of taking non-DOS-legal filenames and converting them to 8.3 and then working on that instead of the real name ANYWAY, so they don't actually care that the smarter tools vomit on whatever character that is.
So, yeah. dir /x pops out the MICROS~1 name, and from there you can do cd, del, rmdir, whatever you want to it.
This is here mostly for my own reference. And hey, you might find it useful someday.
