Deleting a folder doesn't work!!!
Alex Tweedly
alex at tweedly.net
Thu May 19 10:11:56 EDT 2005
xbury.cs at clearstream.com wrote:
>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?
>
>
>
Did you try revDeleteFolder ?
From the docs on Delete Folder:
> Comments:
> If a folder contains any files or folders, it cannot be deleted with
> the delete folder command until the items inside it are deleted or
> moved. To delete a folder that is not empty, use the revDeleteFolder
> command.
>
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