Hello Conor,
After fiddling around with your routine I gave up and ended up with this which
works well leaving directory clean of all files and directories thanks
anyway.Al+
procedure TForm1.DelTree(dir: string);
var
Search: TSearchRec;
fp: file of byte;
ok: integer;
begin
ok := FindFirst(dir + '\*.*', faAnyFile, Search);
while ok = 0 do begin
if ((Search.Name <> '.') and (Search.Name <> '..')) then begin
if ((Search.Attr and faDirectory) > 0) then begin
DelTree(dir + '\' + Search.Name);
// sub branch has been searched, so delete it
RmDir(dir + '\' + Search.Name);
end
else begin
// do something with the file
assignfile(fp, dir + '\' + Search.Name);
erase(fp);
end;
end;
ok := FindNext(Search);
end;
FindClose(Search);
end;
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