Re: can not delete a file

From:
"Igor Tandetnik" <itandetnik@mvps.org>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Mon, 30 Jul 2007 08:09:48 -0400
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"George" <George@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:D7E4988E-A1CB-4055-9274-C166B5BCD1B6@microsoft.com

I am using the following program to delete all files in a specified
directory. But when running, no files could be deleted, and the
related error information is,

failed with error 5 -- access denied. Anything wrong with the program?


I believe WIN32_FIND_DATA::cFileName contains just the file name, not
the full path. DeleteFile requires full path. You would need to
contatenate directory name and file name yourself.

It is a bad idea to modify the directory while you are enumerating it.
You need to make a pass with FindFirstFile/FindNextFile and store the
file names, then delete them in a second pass.

Finally, just scrap this whole code and use SHFileOperation. It can
delete all files in a directory with a single call.
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