Deleting a folder doesn't work!!!

[Eric Chatonet]

Hi Xavier,

Check the revDeleteFolder command :-)

Best regards from Paris,

Eric Chatonet.

Le 19 mai 05 à 16:04, xbury.cs at clearstream.com a écrit :

> Well, im totally surprised again... I need to delete the contents of a
> folder containing temporary items.
> Only the folder is a 60GBs of folders and files and a zillion sub
> folders...
>
> Anyone managed to use the command
>
> delete folder mypath if the folder in question was not empty???
>
> if mypath is a non-empty folder, MC (i guess rev neither) can't  
> delete the
> folder!!! Did I miss a global that permits this?
>
> Is that yet another bugzilla or do i really have to walk through  
> the whole
> (15 GB/250 folders) paths and delete one file by one?
>
> Sometimes I really wonder where the "ease" of use is in computers  
> today...
>
> I managed to do a simple yet yuk-ugly DOS batch to do it but i'd would
> have rather have RR do this  for the security checks which are much  
> easier
> to debug and control than they are in DOS.
>
> AaaaRGH! 20 years of computing science to see it's still the square  
> wheel
> in the stone throwing age...
>
> The dir walking function is way way way too slow in this case -  
> 60GBs of
> data, over 70000 files, etc...
> Delete folder was so "intuitive" compared to the pletoria of  
> statements
> required to do the same thing in other languages...
>
> Any solutions?

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