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I need a function to clear the entire content of a folder. ASP.Net cannot delete folders if the folder is not empty.

Hossein Narimani Rad
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dvdmn
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    Related: http://stackoverflow.com/q/329355/497356 – Andrew Whitaker Mar 25 '13 at 13:34
  • Are any of the files in use? That could screw things up... I'm guessing that with all the solutions shown below, you're going to need some exception handling! – Matthew Watson Mar 25 '13 at 13:34
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    -1 for asking a question that is fairly well covered already, and then answering it immediately yourself. –  Mar 25 '13 at 13:37
  • Either you really don't know how to use google, or you are trying to up your own rep by answering your own question. – JeremyK Mar 25 '13 at 14:02
  • I just wanted to share idea of looping in files and folders. I m not pursuing reputation, (I only got 182 points in ~2 years). hopefully a moderator will delete the topic and no one else will waste their time no more.. – dvdmn Mar 25 '13 at 14:20

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You can use DirectoryInfo, Delete method with parameter specifying whether to delete subdirectories and files :

DirectoryInfo di = new DirectoryInfo("c:\\path");
if (di.Exists)
  di.Delete(true);
Antonio Bakula
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I've done something similar today.

Try this:

foreach (string folder in Directory.GetDirectories("C:\path"))
{
   Directory.Delete(folder, true);
}

The 'true' is for recursive. So that all subitems (files and folders) will be deleted.

Tomtom
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You can use Directory.Delete, where the second parameter specifies: 

public static void Delete(
    string path,
    bool recursive
)

recursive Type: System.Boolean true to remove directories, subdirectories, and files in path; otherwise, false.

Tigran
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Here is the code I came up with to erase files in the folder first, and then the folder itself:

string[] folders = Directory.GetDirectories("C:\path");
    foreach (string folder in folders){
        string[] files = Directory.GetFiles(folder);
        foreach (string file in files){
            File.Delete(file);
        }
        Directory.Delete(folder);
    }
dvdmn
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