Help Deleting Corrupted Files

shrimp · March 15, 2021 at 9:48 PM

For some reason multiple files in my Terraria folder are corrupted and I can't play the game anymore. I've tried verifying the files multiple times, deleting everything, and reinstalling steam.

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del : Cannot remove item D:\Steam\steamapps\common\Terraria\Content\Images\TownNPCs\Bunny_Angora.xnb: The file or  
directory is corrupted and unreadable.  
At line:1 char:1  
+ del "Terraria"  
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  
    + CategoryInfo          : WriteError: (Bunny_Angora.xnb:FileInfo) [Remove-Item], IOException  
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : RemoveFileSystemItemIOError,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.RemoveItemCommand  
del : Directory D:\Steam\steamapps\common\Terraria\Content\Images\TownNPCs cannot be removed because it is not empty.  
At line:1 char:1  
+ del "Terraria"  
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  
    + CategoryInfo          : WriteError: (TownNPCs:DirectoryInfo) [Remove-Item], IOException  
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : DirectoryNotEmpty,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.RemoveItemCommand  

del : Cannot remove item D:\Steam\steamapps\common\Terraria\Content\Images\Player_6_4.xnb: The file or directory is  
corrupted and unreadable.  
At line:1 char:1  
+ del "Terraria"  
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  
    + CategoryInfo          : WriteError: (Player_6_4.xnb:FileInfo) [Remove-Item], IOException  
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : RemoveFileSystemItemIOError,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.RemoveItemCommand  
del : Cannot remove item D:\Steam\steamapps\common\Terraria\Content\Images\Player_7_13.xnb: The file or directory is  
corrupted and unreadable.  
At line:1 char:1  
+ del "Terraria"  
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  
    + CategoryInfo          : WriteError: (Player_7_13.xnb:FileInfo) [Remove-Item], IOException  
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : RemoveFileSystemItemIOError,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.RemoveItemCommand  
del : Cannot remove item D:\Steam\steamapps\common\Terraria\Content\Images\Tiles_93.xnb: The file or directory is  
corrupted and unreadable.  
At line:1 char:1  
+ del "Terraria"  
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  
    + CategoryInfo          : WriteError: (Tiles_93.xnb:FileInfo) [Remove-Item], IOException  
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : RemoveFileSystemItemIOError,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.RemoveItemCommand  
del : Directory D:\Steam\steamapps\common\Terraria\Content\Images cannot be removed because it is not empty.  
At line:1 char:1  
+ del "Terraria"  
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  
    + CategoryInfo          : WriteError: (Images:DirectoryInfo) [Remove-Item], IOException  
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : DirectoryNotEmpty,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.RemoveItemCommand  

del : Directory D:\Steam\steamapps\common\Terraria\Content cannot be removed because it is not empty.  
At line:1 char:1  
+ del "Terraria"  
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  
    + CategoryInfo          : WriteError: (Content:DirectoryInfo) [Remove-Item], IOException  
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : DirectoryNotEmpty,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.RemoveItemCommand  

del : Directory D:\Steam\steamapps\common\Terraria cannot be removed because it is not empty.  
At line:1 char:1  
+ del "Terraria"  
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  
    + CategoryInfo          : WriteError: (D:\Steam\steamapps\common\Terraria:DirectoryInfo) [Remove-Item], IOExceptio  
   n  
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : DirectoryNotEmpty,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.RemoveItemCommand

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**StevenNL2000** · March 15, 2021 at 10:04 PM

Have you tried closing Steam and then manually deleting the folder D:\Steam\steamapps\common\Terraria?

shrimp · March 15, 2021 at 10:29 PM

@StevenNL2000#11333 Yes, it gives me this error

dillon · March 15, 2021 at 10:33 PM

I’d run crystal disk info and see if you have any bad sectors on the hard drive it’s installed on.

shrimp · March 15, 2021 at 10:52 PM

@SupItsDillon#11341

**StevenNL2000** · March 15, 2021 at 11:15 PM Best Answer

@shrimp#11343 That looks like a hard drive that is starting to fail. It's over 4.5 years old now, most hard drives do die around that age.

shrimp · March 15, 2021 at 11:17 PM

@StevenNL2000#11348 Well that's not really what I wanted to hear

Is there anything I can do about it or no?

**videogamesm12** · March 15, 2021 at 11:20 PM

@shrimp#11349 Get a new drive and make a backup of your data. Reduce usage of your current disk as much as possible.

**StevenNL2000** · March 15, 2021 at 11:24 PM

@shrimp#11349 As Video says, the first order of business is to get all important data onto another drive. After that, you can technically still use this drive, but weird errors like this one are going to become more and more frequent.

dillon · March 15, 2021 at 11:28 PM

RIP to your hard drive. As said above, get all important data off it asap, it might even be worth booting into a live os if you plan to get all the data off at once, otherwise you’ll probably be fine using windows if you only need bits and pieces off it (I presume your windows installation is on your good drive anyway)

shrimp · March 16, 2021 at 12:15 AM

The only thing I use this drive for is game data and I honestly don't really play video games anymore (except Terraria but that's on the cloud) so it doesn't matter too much to me. Honestly might just keep it and deal with it

Would installing the game to a different location fix the issue?

Fleek · March 16, 2021 at 12:19 AM

@shrimp#11358 On a different drive, yes.

shrimp · March 16, 2021 at 1:29 PM

It’s ok I installed terraria on my main drive and now it works lol

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