I just tested that with plain rsync, and it worked great:

rsync -a --delete source/ dest/

dest had a directory, 'notempty', with a file in it. rsync deleted the whole
directory.

Things to check:
a) permissions
b) You have recursive selected along with the delete option.

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 7:35 AM, cmcanulty <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> On the same subject, I use grsync and have the delete on destination
> checked but constantly get cannot delete non-empty directory. Is there
> a way on grsync to have it delete non empty directories? In other
> words if it isn't on source I don't want it on destination whether
> files, or folders of files.Thank you
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