Many people are too precious about scripts. Here’s my simple GUI-based method for removing unwanted datafiles.
1a) fire up the shrink gui (tasks / shink / files)
1b) locate your target datafile
1c) run the 3 ‘shrink actions’ in order, one at a time (2nd one to ‘1’)
2a) Fire up the Database properies files tab
2b) highlight the unwanted datafile, click ‘remove’, and then ‘ok’
Database Consultant 