Remove directory contains read-only file

[Hughng]

How do I remove a directory that might contains read-only file. The Directory.delete() work fine if it only contains deletable files. But when a read-only file existed inside that directory, the function throw an exception. I am just wondering that any other command will delete the whole directory recursively.

 

I know that dos command "Rd /s /q xxxxx" will recursively remove the whole thing, but I could not call that in VB.NET for some reason.

 

Thank you for your help,

 

 

HN

[mutant]

You have to go through every file and set the attributes so its not ReadOnly.

This will do it for you:

Dim f As IO.FileInfo
Dim dir As New IO.DirectoryInfo("path to the directory")
For Each f In dir.GetFiles
  f.Attributes = IO.FileAttributes.Normal
Next

[Hughng]

Thank you very much. That does it :-)