How to Delete a Whole Folder and Content

How to delete a whole folder and content?

Let me tell you first thing you cannot delete the DCIM folder because it is a system folder. As you delete it manually on phone it will delete the contents of that folder, but not the DCIM folder. You can delete its contents by using the method below:

Updated as per comments

File dir = new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory()+"Dir_name_here"); 
if (dir.isDirectory()) 
{
    String[] children = dir.list();
    for (int i = 0; i < children.length; i++)
    {
       new File(dir, children[i]).delete();
    }
}

How to delete files/subfolders in a specific directory at the command prompt in Windows

You can use this shell script to clean up the folder and files within C:\Temp source:

del /q "C:\Temp\*"
FOR /D %%p IN ("C:\Temp\*.*") DO rmdir "%%p" /s /q

Create a batch file (say, delete.bat) containing the above command. Go to the location where the delete.bat file is located and then run the command: delete.bat

Delete all files and folders in a directory

del *.* instead of del *.db. That will remove everything.

How to delete a folder and all contents using a bat file in windows?

@RD /S /Q "D:\PHP_Projects\testproject\Release\testfolder"

Explanation:

Removes (deletes) a directory.

RMDIR [/S] [/Q] [drive:]path RD [/S] [/Q] [drive:]path

/S      Removes all directories and files in the specified directory
        in addition to the directory itself.  Used to remove a directory
        tree.

/Q      Quiet mode, do not ask if ok to remove a directory tree with /S

How to delete the contents of a folder?

import os, shutil
folder = '/path/to/folder'
for filename in os.listdir(folder):
    file_path = os.path.join(folder, filename)
    try:
        if os.path.isfile(file_path) or os.path.islink(file_path):
            os.unlink(file_path)
        elif os.path.isdir(file_path):
            shutil.rmtree(file_path)
    except Exception as e:
        print('Failed to delete %s. Reason: %s' % (file_path, e))

How to remove a folder and all its content from the current directory?

You were looking for this command:

RMDIR [/S] [/Q] [drive:]path
RD [/S] [/Q] [drive:]path

    /S      Removes all directories and files in the specified directory
            in addition to the directory itself.  Used to remove a directory
            tree.

    /Q      Quiet mode, do not ask if ok to remove a directory tree with /S

In your case just use /S
,it will delete the whole directory tree by first asking the user if it should proceed, i.e.- displaying the following output to the screen:

"folderName, Are you sure (Y/N)?"

where folderName is the name of the folder (and its sub-folders) you wish to remove.

Tested on Windows 7, 64 bit.

How to delete all files and folders in a directory?

System.IO.DirectoryInfo di = new DirectoryInfo("YourPath");

foreach (FileInfo file in di.GetFiles())
{
    file.Delete(); 
}
foreach (DirectoryInfo dir in di.GetDirectories())
{
    dir.Delete(true); 
}

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If your directory may have many files, EnumerateFiles() is more efficient than GetFiles(), because when you use EnumerateFiles() you can start enumerating it before the whole collection is returned, as opposed to GetFiles() where you need to load the entire collection in memory before begin to enumerate it. See this quote here:

Therefore, when you are working with many files and directories, EnumerateFiles() can be more efficient.

The same applies to EnumerateDirectories() and GetDirectories(). So the code would be:

foreach (FileInfo file in di.EnumerateFiles())
{
    file.Delete(); 
}
foreach (DirectoryInfo dir in di.EnumerateDirectories())
{
    dir.Delete(true); 
}

For the purpose of this question, there is really no reason to use GetFiles() and GetDirectories().

C# delete a folder and all files and folders within that folder

dir.Delete(true); // true => recursive delete

How to delete a non-empty folder in Batch script?

For the previous answer, I checked the current Microsoft documentation about commands it has, and it does NOT say clearly that the del command will delete only files.

The command you need to recursively delete a folder, and all files OR folders it contains is:

rmdir [name of the folder] /s /q

Please note the "/s" and "/q" arguments, which have the same meaning as for the del command, but they come AFTER the name of the folder! This is what the command documentation shows, as you may read here.

But there are more possible reasons for the recursive directory deletion failing! If you try to delete a directory that has system files or hidden files, the rmdir command will fail. To solve this problem, you need to do more work. To quote the documentation pointed above:

You can't delete a directory that contains files, including hidden or system files. If you attempt to do so, the following message appears:

The directory is not empty

Use the dir /a command to list all files (including hidden and system files). Then use the attrib command with -h to remove hidden file attributes, -s to remove system file attributes, or -h -s to remove both hidden and system file attributes. After the hidden and file attributes have been removed, you can delete the files.

Boto3 AWS Codecommit Delete Folder

AWS codecommit doesn't allow deleting directories (folders). This implementation works, instead of deleting the whole directory at once, you find all the files and then delete them.

Basic overview.

1. Get FileNames inside Folder using .get_folder() note that his gives a lot more info*
2. Clean .get_folder - clean output not just the filepaths, we only require filepaths
3. Commit (delete)

Where REPOSITORY_NAME is the name of your repository and folderPath is the name of the folder that you want to delete.

files = codecommit_client.get_folder(repositoryName=REPOSITORY_NAME, folderPath=PATH)

Now we use that information, to create a commit with deleted files, we had to do some manipulation since the deleteFiles param takes only filepaths and the information that we got with .get_folder contains a lot more than just filepaths. Please replace branchName if you need (currently main)

codecommit_client.create_commit(
            repositoryName=REPOSITORY_NAME,
            branchName='main',
            parentCommitId=files['commitId'],
            commitMessage=f"DELETED Files",
            deleteFiles=[{'filePath':x['absolutePath']} for x in files['files']],
    )

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