[RESOLVED] [2008] Delete Read Only files

[boku]

My app is all but finished, just running through some final tests and I have discovered that I'm having trouble getting my program to delete read-only files ... unless I do it manually through Explorer I cannot seem to rid them, and I get an exception on debug.

So my question is how can I force it to delete a read only file.

I'm currently using

System.IO.Directory.Delete(tempdir, True)

to delete the dir and all its files. All goes well except for the read-only ones...

[sparrow1]

Hi,

You could, before deleting the file change it to normal and then delete it.
Here's an example how to change it to normal:

System.IO.File.SetAttributes(path, System.IO.FileAttributes.Normal)

Wkr,

sparrow1

[boku]

Cheers for the hint sparrow

I wrote a little script that will change all files in a directory to normal recursively

For Each item In System.IO.Directory.GetFiles(tempdir)
System.IO.File.SetAttributes(item, IO.FileAttributes.Normal)
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