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How to remove an existing directory programatically?
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From
16/10/2002 09:35:43
Henry Ravichander
RC Management Systems Inc.
Saskatchewan, Canada
 
 
To
16/10/2002 02:38:54
Lutz Scheffler
Lutz Scheffler Software Ingenieurbüro
Dresden, Germany
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00711569
Message ID:
00711666
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11
>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 ...
>
>

Agnes - I am using W98SE. However, I will try this out. Note, that I have not deleated any sub directories or their contents.

Thanks.
- Ravi

True greatness consists in being great in little things.
- Charles Simmons
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