Force Delete all files from a folder Asked 13 years, 5 months ago Modified 2 years, 9 months ago Viewed 77k times

Aug 4, 2008 · Killing other processes is not a healthy thing to do. If your scenario involves something like uninstallation, you could use the MoveFileEx API function to mark the file for deletion upon next …

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Aug 7, 2021 · How to force delete a file used by another process in Asp.net core Asked 4 years, 4 months ago Modified 4 years, 4 months ago Viewed 2k times

I understand the concept, but when one is well aware about the fact that (s)he want to delete the folder entirely, then what's the point of crawling the entire file tree ? shutil.rmdir specifically call os.listdir (), …

4 There seems to be issues where Remove-Item -Force -Recurse can intermittently fail on Windows because the underlying file system is asynchronous. This answer seems to address it. The user has …

How do I delete a file or folder in Python? For Python 3, to remove the file and directory individually, use the unlink and rmdir Path object methods respectively:

Apr 15, 2017 · I need a Windows command to delete a directory and all its containing files but I do not want to see any errors if the directory does not exist.

Sep 26, 2014 · When I try to delete a file occurs the following exception: The process cannot access the file '' because it is being used by another process. My code looks like: string[] files = Directory.

This doesn't delete files, like rm -rf does, and it also returns a non-zero value when the directory doesn't exist, so rd /s /q foo && echo "yay" will fail if directory "foo" doesn't exist.