CFFILE DELETE through a directory

[Yelellav]

Can anyone help me figure out how to recurse through the directory to delete multiple levels of files and folders using CFFILE.

I can delete the top level fine (i.e. one folder and all files in that folder), but when I try to delete a folder within a folder that contains files I get the error that I can not delete the folder because files exist. I understand why I am getting the error but I don't know how to resolve this.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

My code below works fine for the "first level"

<!--- put files within directory into a list --->

<cfdirectory action=&quot;list&quot;
directory=&quot;#form.docDelete#&quot;
name=&quot;file_list&quot;>


<!---loop through list and delete all files in the list--->

<cfloop query=&quot;file_list&quot;>

<!--- delete all files within the folder --->
<cfif fileexists(form.docDelete & &quot;\&quot; & file_list.name)>
<cffile action=&quot;delete&quot;
file=&quot;#form.docDelete#\#file_list.name#&quot;>
</cfif>
</cfloop>


<!--- delete the folder --->

<cfdirectory action=&quot;delete&quot; directory=&quot;#form.docDelete#&quot;>

 

[NiCoZ]

the path for the cffile delete is wrong. u must put the path of the server (i.e. c:\inetpub\

http://wwwroot\yourSite\...

). That's why it doesn't delete the files and so it can't delete the folder. And u must put the path server in the cfdirectory delete too.

 

[Yelellav]

In case anyone else is wondering how to do this, I found a custom tag that works great.

http://devex.macromedia.com/develop...s=delete+directory&category=*&searchOptions=0