Windows disk cleanup causes a "compressed (zipped folder)" prompt

[John Dalberg]

I used the disk cleanup utiliy found under 'system tools' on an external
hard drive. It was supposed to give me a prompt before doing any work so I
stopped it. Now everytime I try access the drive using file explorer, I get
a prompt with "Please insert the last disk of the multi-volume set and
click ok to continue. Because I have no such thing I click cancel and the
prompt comes back up and I click cancel again.

This is becoming annoying and I don't know what's on on the drive that
makes explorer think I need to supply it with a disk or something.

How can I remove this prompt? How do I know which folders are compressed if
any?

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John Dalberg

[David Candy]

This is a zip file error message (and almost the last in the zillions of error messages from the zip part of XP - how many ways can one say wrong password? - MS can say it in hundreds of ways). I suspected it was from what it says so I searched the UI strings in XP's zipper.

This is the one I found (\n means new line)
"Please insert the last disk of the Multi-Volume set and\nclick OK to continue. "

Have you rebooted since seeing this. Is there a zip on the disk. Zip files have the directory entries at the end of the whole file, so on a multi disk zip it will be on the last zip. Zip programs tend to ask for the last disk if the zip file appears incomplete or has been truncated. Zipping always involves the creation of a new zip file with a temporary name, deletion of the existing file (if adding to a zip), then renaming of the temp file to whatever.zip. Maybe there is a truncated tmp file that was a zip once.
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[David Candy]

You can see the importance of exact error messages. To make life easy on yourself and eliminate transcribing errors press Ctrl + C while the message box is active and it will copy the text to the clipboard.

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