Trouble Deleting a Directory in Windows NT 4.0 1

[dbucak]

I need to delete a directory from within a MFC application. _rmdir(lpstrDir) doesn't seem to work. If I call strerror(errno) to see what the trouble is it returns "Permission Denied". However when I check the permissions on the directory, Everyone has Full Control. I can also remove the directory manually from a command prompt or through explorer. According to the documentation CFile::Remove won't work on a directory. system("rmdir c:\\dir&quot works, but it flashes an annoying DOS window. Is there some other way I can do this? Thanks.

 

[dbucak]

Of course, as soon as I posted this I figured it out. I had used a CFileFind object to find and delete all the files in the directory and I forgot to Close it.

 

[DavesTips]

Well, maybe this is still of some use. More convenient in some cases are the Windows Shell functions. With SHFileOperation() for example you can delete a directory even if it's full, like so:

SHFILEOPSTRUCT fo;

ZeroMemory(&fo,sizeof(fo));
fo.wFunc = FO_DELETE;
fo.fFlags = FOF_NOCONFIRMATION;
fo.pFrom = "C:\\temp1\0\0";
int res = SHFileOperation(&fo);

Somehow this seems to me more fitting for a MFC App than C lib functions What's more, it'll pop up nice standard Windows confirmation boxes if you want. (FOF_NOCONFIRMATION suppresses them). Hope that this helped! ;-)