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DarkBASIC Discussion / File deleting

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Sonic 91 Software
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Posted: 6th Dec 2005 11:39
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I recently created a program that deleted all files within a given directory. But then I lost the code. Does anyone know how I can do this? I think it was something like, "if path exist("directory")=1 then delete directory "directory"

but i've tried it since and it won't work.

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SimSmall
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Posted: 6th Dec 2005 11:58
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what sort of error?

Can't delete directory or directory does not exist?

...maybe one day I'll finish a project
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Posted: 7th Dec 2005 06:41
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Directories have to be empty before you can delete them. This is a Windows rule - not a problem with DB.

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Sonic 91 Software
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Posted: 7th Dec 2005 11:48
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The strange thing is, it didn't come up with any error messages, yet the other day, when I used DB to delete a screen saver I made, i set the directory to "Dark Basic\My Projects\Screensaver" and deleted the "screensaver" directory, without any error messages at all. It didn't delete the actual directory, but it deleted all the files within the directory! Wierd!

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