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[h-e-w] dired-do-delete a not empty directories   Message List  
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Re: [h-e-w] dired-do-delete a not empty directories

"Albert, Jürgen" <Juergen.Albert@...> writes:

> Is it possible to delete a not empty directory in dired-mode?

Check out the variable `dired-recursive-deletes´. By default it is nil, so
that it wont try to delete recursively, and then the directoy deletion
fails.

Best regards,

Niels
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Fri Apr 12, 2002 9:58 am

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Is it possible to delete a not empty directory in dired-mode? I get the following error in Dired log: (file-error Removing directory directory not empty <name...
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... Check out the variable `dired-recursive-deletes´. By default it is nil, so that it wont try to delete recursively, and then the directoy deletion fails. ...
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