Re: How do I delete a folder through code?
"Alf P. Steinbach" <alfps@start.no> wrote in message
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* Alexander Grigoriev:
"scs0" <scs0@vol.com> wrote in message
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I cleaned up the code and found that it will work for shallow folders
but anything that has a deep subfolder structure seems to fail
// Delete the contents of the driver's backup folder
SHFILEOPSTRUCT info = {};
info.wFunc = FO_DELETE;
info.fFlags = FOF_NOCONFIRMATION | FOF_SILENT;
TCHAR szBuffer[2048] = {};
_tcscpy(szBuffer, _T("\\\\?\\"));
_tcscat(szBuffer, (LPCTSTR)strChosenFolder);
info.pFrom = szBuffer;
if (0 != SHFileOperation(&info))
pFrom should be double-zero terminated.
Unless the strChosenFolder is very long, the copy in szBuffer is
double-zero terminated.
Note that the buffer is zeroed.
Depending on VC version, empty initializer list {} may not be the same as
{0}. The standard says that for {}, each item in the aggregate is
default-initialized; in this case by TCHAR(). Until recently, IIRC, for POD,
default initialized meant non-initialized.
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