deleting un-empty directory

[notquitehere188]

i am using rmdir to delete directories but it does not seem to work when there is something in the directory

any easy ways to fix this?

[westconn1]

delete all the files and subdirectories first.

though maybe FSO can do it

pete

[ThaRubby]

in a shell, RmDir C:\Hello /s /q will remove a directory even if it isnt empty.

[dglienna]

He means to do this:

Option Explicit
 
Private Declare Function ShellExecute Lib "shell32.dll" Alias "ShellExecuteA" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal lpOperation As String, _
ByVal lpFile As String, ByVal lpParameters As String, ByVal lpDirectory As String, ByVal nShowCmd As Long) As Long
 
Private Const SW_SHOWNORMAL As Long = 1
Private Const SW_HIDE As Long = 0
 
Private Sub Command1_Click()
    ShellExecute Me.hwnd, "Open", "C:\Windows\System32\CMD.exe", " /c RMdir  c:Hello  /s /q"", "C:\", SW_SHOWNORMAL
End Sub

[penagate]

Kill [dir] & "\*.*"
RmDir [dir]