I understand the concept, but when one is well aware about the fact that (s)he want to delete the folder entirely, then what's the point of crawling the entire file tree ? shutil.rmdir specifically call os.listdir (), …

Apr 15, 2017 · I need a Windows command to delete a directory and all its containing files but I do not want to see any errors if the directory does not exist.

Nov 14, 2014 · When facing an inability to delete a file because of "the system cannot find the file specified" I've tried all the common tricks (verify permissions, command line, free unlocker tools, etc).

Aug 4, 2008 · Killing other processes is not a healthy thing to do. If your scenario involves something like uninstallation, you could use the MoveFileEx API function to mark the file for deletion upon next …

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Sep 26, 2014 · When I try to delete a file occurs the following exception: The process cannot access the file '' because it is being used by another process. My code looks like: string[] files = Directory.

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4 There seems to be issues where Remove-Item -Force -Recurse can intermittently fail on Windows because the underlying file system is asynchronous. This answer seems to address it. The user has …

Apr 15, 2017 · When I use the rmdir command it only removes empty folders. If I have a directory nested with files and folders within folders with files and so on, is there a way to delete all the files and …

I use Windows. I want to delete all files and folders in a folder by system call. I may call like that: >rd /s /q c:\\destination >md c:\\destination Do you know an easier way?