>semi-follow up to the MD issue
>
>I need to remove a root directory, which may contain subdirectories. Recursion seemed the simplest solution:
>1. Delete the files
>2. Remove the subdirectories
>3. Remove the root directory
>
>FUNCTION RemoveDirectory
>Parameters dirpath
> Dele file (dirpath+"*.*")
> entries = adir(aRemDirs,dirpath+"*.*","D")
> If entries >= 0
> for i = 1 to entries
> If !Inlist(aRemDirs(i,1),".","..")
> RemoveDirectory(dirpath+aRemDirs(i,1)+"\")
> Endif
> Next
> Endif
> RD (dirpath)
>Return && RemoveDirectory
>

You might try the following; it uses the Scripting.FileSystemObject to do the same thing, without some of the strange things related to ADIR():

FUNCTION DelFolderTree
LPARAMETER cPathToDelete, toFSO
LOCAL oFSO, oFolder
IF TYPE('toFSO') # 'O' OR ISNULL(toFSO)
   oFSO = CREATEOBJ('Scripting.FileSystemObject')
ELSE
   oFSO = toFSO
ENDIF
oFolder = oFSO.GetFolder(cPathToDelete)
FOR EACH Folder in oFolder.SubFolders
    DelFolderTree(Folder.Path, oFSO)
ENDFOR
oFolder = ''
oFSO.DeleteFolder(cPathToDelete,.t.)
oFSO = ''
RETURN

>I read in the help that functions' parameters are passed by value, and i THOUGHT this would protect the scoping necessary for recursion. It's late on a friday, and while i can see this isn't working, i can't seem to figure out why.
>
>I'm hoping someone will immediately see what i'm doing wrong. TIA