All deleted. Great! Shut down and go to bed.
Start again today and there they are. All back again. And I never logged on in the meantime so they came from somewhere within the machine.
Looks like a reformat is the only solution. That's probably what the b*st*ard wanted in the first place. So I won't give in. When I do crack it I promise I'll kill the b*st*rd, so I will.
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Through difficulties to the cinema