Deleting "Read Only" files

[James]

Hello,


Whenever I try to delete a Read Only file using FileInfoObject.Delete I get
"Access to the path "File name and path" is Denied" error. This does not
happen with other files. Any ideas? Thank you.

 

[Greg Young]

Change it to not be readonly first.

You can get whether or not it is readonly by checking the FileInfo object's
attributes

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.file.getattributes.aspx

You can then set it to not be readonly using

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.file.setattributes.aspx


A quick google also brought up
http://www.thescripts.com/forum/thread270312.html which also suggests using
WMI which supposedly does not have the same restriction.

Cheers,

Greg

 

[James]

Using SetAttributes did the trick. Thanks!

Change it to not be readonly first.

You can get whether or not it is readonly by checking the FileInfo
object's attributes

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.file.getattributes.aspx

You can then set it to not be readonly using

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.file.setattributes.aspx


A quick google also brought up
http://www.thescripts.com/forum/thread270312.html which also suggests
using WMI which supposedly does not have the same restriction.

Cheers,

Greg