Kill Directory 1

[aweiss]

Hello,

how can I kill a Directory from VB? The Directory das Sub-Directories.

Can anyone help me??

Thanks

Bye

 

[dsi]

To remove a directory you need to use the RMDIR function. Unfortunately, you need to recurse throught the sub directories to KILL the files first, since RMDIR only removes empty directories.

 

[edderic]

'Attention with the code !

Delete Directory And All Its Content

'This example imitate the DOS deltree command.
'Insert the following code to your form:

Private Sub Form_Load()
'Replace the 'C:\MyDir' below with the name of the directory you want to delete.
x = DelTree("C:\MyDir&quot
Select Case x
Case 0: MsgBox "Deleted"
Case -1: MsgBox "Invalid Directory"
Case Else: MsgBox "An Error was occured"
End Select
End Sub

Function DelTree(ByVal strDir As String) As Long
Dim x As Long
Dim intAttr As Integer
Dim strAllDirs As String
Dim strFile As String
DelTree = -1
On Error Resume Next
strDir = Trim$(strDir)
If Len(strDir) = 0 Then Exit Function
If Right$(strDir, 1) = "\" Then strDir = Left$(strDir, Len(strDir) - 1)
If InStr(strDir, "\&quot = 0 Then Exit Function
intAttr = GetAttr(strDir)
If (intAttr And vbDirectory) = 0 Then Exit Function
strFile = Dir$(strDir & "\*.*", vbSystem Or vbDirectory Or vbHidden)
Do While Len(strFile)
If strFile <> &quot;.&quot; And strFile <> &quot;..&quot; Then
intAttr = GetAttr(strDir &amp; &quot;\&quot; &amp; strFile)
If (intAttr And vbDirectory) Then
strAllDirs = strAllDirs &amp; strFile &amp; Chr$(0)
Else
If intAttr <> vbNormal Then
SetAttr strDir &amp; &quot;\&quot; &amp; strFile, vbNormal
If Err Then DelTree = Err: Exit Function
End If
Kill strDir &amp; &quot;\&quot; &amp; strFile
If Err Then DelTree = Err: Exit Function
End If
End If
strFile = Dir$
Loop
Do While Len(strAllDirs)
x = InStr(strAllDirs, Chr$(0))
strFile = Left$(strAllDirs, x - 1)
strAllDirs = Mid$(strAllDirs, x + 1)
x = DelTree(strDir &amp; &quot;\&quot; &amp; strFile)
If x Then DelTree = x: Exit Function
Loop
RmDir strDir
If Err Then
DelTree = Err
Else
DelTree = 0
End If
End Function


Eric De Decker
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[kpenga]

All you need is the SHFileOperation API.

You can find instructions for it here

http://www.vbapi.com/ref/s/shfileoperation.html

Roberto Amorim