>>I am writing a program that needs to check for the existence of a particular directory. It then needs to delete everything underneath that direcotry (to include other folders) and the very last step is to delete the directory itself.
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>Jeffrey,
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>With the Windows Script Host it's a snap. Once you've verified the existence of the directory with the DIRECTORY() function

oFSO = CREATEOBJECT("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
>* lcdir is the directory to delete
>oFSO.DeleteFolder(lcdir, .T.)

Note that this deletes the folder, files, any sub-folders completely. IOW, they're not sent to the Recycle bin. The .T. parameter forces the deletion of any read-only files. All other file, including hidden and system folders are deleted regardless.
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I don't think you need a switch (in fact I don't think you can use a switch here)

oFSO.DeleteFolder(lcdir)     && delete the folder, subfolders and files
oFSO.DeleteFile(lcfile, .T.) && delete any file, even read-only