Good Morning Henry,

this problem occurs sometimes, especially if you first delete the files and the try to RMDIR. This is bound to a caching problem of windows. It occurs more often with W2K and XP then other versions.

The kludge I use:

*delete all files in that dir
WAIT "" TIMEOUT 5 NOCLEAR
RMDIR ...

An other way will be to catch the error, wait the time and retry
HTH

Agnes
>Hi all:
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>I am attempting to first, delete an existing directory and all subfolders within that directory and then create a new directory with subdirectories where needed.
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>I have tried the RMDIR and RD commands - but get a message that says "File Access is Denied". Clicking HELP tells me that I am trying to write to a protected file (whihc is not true).
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>Any suggestions? Thank you in advance.