Permission Denied When Delete Folder

[beer]

Hello,

I am building a web site on a NT4.0 Service Pack 6.0a IIS 4.0 Server. One of the pages has the function to delete folder and file. I was randomly getting the "Permission Denied" error when I tried to delete a folder that had files in it. Then, I figured out that the error only happened after a file was viewed. For some reason, the system thinks that the file is still open and that cannot be deleted or the file is still in the middle of deleting while the code tries to delete the folder.

I tried everything to solve this problem in my coding, but it seems that the problem is not coming from the code. It's the system. Does anyone know how to solve this problem? Your help is extremly important. Thank you very very very much.

Beer....

 

[yandso]

Have you tried clearing the buffer?

 

[beer]

Buffer? How and where? Response.Buffer = True? I did the Response.Buffer = True.

Thank you.

 

[yandso]

Then after that you can put Response.Flush

 

[beer]

No luck.....Thank you for your help.....

Beer

 

[beer]

The following is my code:

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If fso.FolderExists(FolderPath) = True Then
fso.DeleteFolder FolderPath, True ------PROBLEM
End If
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The "Permission Denied" is coming from the line "PROBLEM" I have tried to delete the files first and then delete folder:

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If fso.FolderExists(FolderPath) = True Then
Set Folder = fso.GetFolder (FolderPath)
Set Files = Folder.Files
For each File in Files
fso.DeleteFile File, True
Next
fso.DeleteFolder FolderPath, True----------PROBLEM
End If
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Still no luck. When I actually go to the folder, and I can still see the files inside that folder. But after a while, the files disappear as they are deleted. That's why I think it's because for some reason, the system is still deleting the file while the delete folder code comes in and it returns "Permission denied".

Thank you for your help.

Beer

 

[BBirkett]

If thats what you think your problem is, then you could put a loop around the DeleteFolder part, that just checks the file count for the folder. When the file count = 0, delete folder. Brett Birkett B.Comp
Systems Analyst

 

[beer]

Thank you very much for your help. It worked. But the process of deleting the files take a while to finish. It's very weird how NT 4 and IIS 4.0 do that. But if anyone can think of something else, please do tell.

Thank you very much.

Beer