Can't Delete Directory

LiangTyan Fui mlist at afteroffice.com
Tue Aug 3 15:09:22 EDT 2004


On Aug 3, 2004, at 12:37 PM, Simon Lord wrote:

>> One of those little annoyances; if I run the command "delete 
>> directory myPath" where myPath is a perfectly valid path to a folder 
>> on the local hard disk, I get the result "can't delete that file".  
>> Any ideas anyone?
>>
>>    Using: Metacard 2.5 on Mac OSX 10.2.8
>
> First thing that comes to mind is permissions.  Who are you running 
> metacard as and who owns the rights to the folder?  What rights was 
> the folder set with?

The directory must by empty too.

-- 

> I haven't tried it myself, I'm just pointing out the uber obvious.
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>> Ray Horsley
>> Developer, LinkIt! Software




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