I'll try this one too Fabian. Appreciate your kind response.

>According to the theory
>

>RUN RD /S &Path
>

>it should work but it doesn't.. (Don't know why)
>According with Jose Luis Santana (not copyrighted yet :))) you can use 2 APIs:
>1) MoveFile (I don't have the sample of this function on hand) to move the directory to another folder like Recent Documents.
>2) Empty Recent Documents Folder:
>

>DECLARE LONG SHAddToRecentDocs IN "Shell32";
>  LONG lFlags,;
>  LONG lPv
>=SHAddToRecentDocs (0, 0)
><\PRE>
>It's a tricky (unclean) way to do it...but it works.
>
>Regards
>
>>Hi all:
>>
>>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.
>>
>>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).
>>
>>Any suggestions?  Thank you in advance.

- Ravi

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