How to remove a directory

[nbugalia]

How to remove a directory and it's sub directory/files? Api RemoveDirectory only operates on empty directories.

[Lost User]

You need to write a recursive function to walk down the folder tree and start deleting things from the bottom up. For a given directory enumerate the contents, for each sub directory call your directory delete function again and then delete the directory when it returns

[Roger Broomfield]

You could try experimenting with SHFileOperation() setting the wFunc member to FO_DELETE and NOT including FOF_NORECURSION in the fFlags member. I have used it to delete all files in a folder in one operation but havent actually tried the recursive delete that is implied by the FOF_NORECURSION flag.

[Hamid Taebi]

Or see _rmdir.

[ThatsAlok]

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[Roger Broomfield]

Please Note: _rmdir The directory must be empty, and it must not be the current working directory or the root directory.