Problems with "delete folder"" && someFolder

[Brian Yennie]

Alain,

The ".." and "." folders aren't actual folders - they are just  
symbolic. Thus there is nothing to delete. Problems deleting regular  
folders is another story, but the "." and ".." entries shouldn't be  
the source of your problem.

If you are really stuck in Transcript land, you could try using  
shell() to call through to the command-line where things behave like  
you are accustomed to? If you use "rm" on the command line (UNIX /  
Linux / MacOS X), there are options to recurse and force delete  
everything:

rm -rf /path/to/my/folder

Hope that helps.

> Hello y'all,
>
> I'm trying to script MetaCard 2.5 so that it can DELETE a FOLDER.  
> But it just doesn't work, no matter what I try. Given my experience  
> with the command-line in DOS and in UNIX, I know that one cannot  
> delete a folder that has something *in* it. So I tried emptying the  
> files in my to-be-deleted folder. This works fine, for the visible  
> files but one-or-more of the *invisible* files are hard to get-rid- 
> of, namely "icon%OD" or just "icon" ... it varies!
>
> I think I have managed to empty all of the files from my to-be- 
> deleted folder but it also contains an invisible folder, e.g. "..".  
> From my CLI experience I know that this is what one types in order  
> to go UP one-level in the hierarchy of the filesystem, e.g. next- 
> folder-up. But I can't seem to DELETE it ! It's like I'm not-allowed  
> to do it. Do I need to set the access-priviledges to 777 or  
> something? I test-for the existence of this ".." folder, BEFORE 
> +AFTER trying to delete it, and confirms the existence of this  
> folder in BOTH cases ; IOW, the folder was NOT deleted!!!
>
> I even tried setting the directory one-level-up so that the system  
> is in a location that will still exist once I delete the folder the  
> system used to be in .. again from my CLI experience.
>
> So what gives ?? Can we delete folders or not ??
>
> Please HELP me if you can, I'm feeling down_own_own. And I would  
> appreciate you being around_own_own ... won't you PLEASE, please,  
> PLEASE help me, help me HELP-me .... ou hou !  ;-)
>
> on deleteFolder folderPath
> -- insert your handler here!  :-)
> end deleteFolder
>
> Alain
>
>
>
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Brian Yennie
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