well I tried a couple of programs to undelete and failednow i have files in my home folder with what appears to be a closed padlocktried deleting but to no avail any ideas or a fresh install.
Check ownership of the files, may have to be root to look / delete..
Try using the command line "ls -l" command.Look at the file permissions and ownership, there may be some clues there.You may be able to do an "sudo rm <filename> . . .
Just curious, what programs did you try and what was their output? Was thelocked folder generated by one of the programs and can you see how large itis?
it was recup and photo recsize is unknown Microsoft free zone.
If you are really sure you don't need these files just boot to a live CD,find them and delete them. A live operating system doesn't respect filepermissions it hasn't created. Try puppy lucid 511, its based on ubuntu,fast and quick to load.
You can change permissions and delete any file as root. To start the filemanager as root open a terminal and type: gksu nautilus [enter]. It willprompt you for your password.Note: you will be in the root home folder and not your own. Navigate to yourown home folder and you should be able to delete files that you could notbefore. You can also change permissions as root by right clicking on a fileor folder and going to the permissions tab.