Hi,

I have a few folders on my drive and whenever I try to
delete them I get the message that "Cannot delete <folder
name>: The directory is not empty". If I do delete the
files and subfolders and send them to the recycle bin then
I can't delete these folders and files from the recycle
bin and get the same "The directory is not empty" message;
and I still cannot delete the main parent folder from the
drive.

Has anyone else encountered this problem? Any help is
greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Bob

Hi, Bob.

MAYBE this will work. It often does.

Open a "DOS" window. Navigate to the parent of the undeletable folder. Use
the Remove Directory command with the /s switch to delete that folder and
all the subfolders and files within it.
Type: rd <foldername> /s

If that doesn't work, tell us exactly what you did and what results you saw.

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(E-Mail Removed)
Microsoft Windows MVP

"Bob" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:f72401c43deb$dde4ba20$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi,
>
> I have a few folders on my drive and whenever I try to
> delete them I get the message that "Cannot delete <folder
> name>: The directory is not empty". If I do delete the
> files and subfolders and send them to the recycle bin then
> I can't delete these folders and files from the recycle
> bin and get the same "The directory is not empty" message;
> and I still cannot delete the main parent folder from the
> drive.
>
> Has anyone else encountered this problem? Any help is
> greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Bob

Hi,

That didn't work either. Here are the results:-

C:\>rd /s 24d3b8a5se
24d3b8a5se, Are you sure (Y/N)? Y
24d3b8a5se\8d6f9423\assembly\dl2\6ef834e6\0043BC~1 - The
directory is not empty.

24d3b8a5se\8d6f9423\assembly\tmp\1BIPW3AH - The directory
is not empty.
24d3b8a5se\8d6f9423\assembly\tmp\CLSZ6DKR - The directory
is not empty.
24d3b8a5se\8d6f9423\assembly\tmp\X8FMT07E - The directory
is not empty.

I can rename the folders; just can't delete them which is
what I need to do.

Thanks for the help,
Bob

>-----Original Message-----
>Hi, Bob.
>
>MAYBE this will work. It often does.
>
>Open a "DOS" window. Navigate to the parent of the
undeletable folder. Use
>the Remove Directory command with the /s switch to
delete that folder and
>all the subfolders and files within it.
>Type: rd <foldername> /s
>
>If that doesn't work, tell us exactly what you did and
what results you saw.
>
>RC
>--
>R. C. White, CPA
>San Marcos, TX
>(E-Mail Removed)
>Microsoft Windows MVP
>
>"Bob" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>news:f72401c43deb$dde4ba20$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a few folders on my drive and whenever I try to
>> delete them I get the message that "Cannot delete
<folder
>> name>: The directory is not empty". If I do delete the
>> files and subfolders and send them to the recycle bin
then
>> I can't delete these folders and files from the recycle
>> bin and get the same "The directory is not empty"
message;
>> and I still cannot delete the main parent folder from
the
>> drive.
>>
>> Has anyone else encountered this problem? Any help is
>> greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Bob
>
>.
>