RemoveDirectory（）如果​​目录不为空？

Question

On the page ( RemoveDirectory() - function ) they say : " The path of the directory to be removed. This path must specify an empty directory , and the calling process must have delete access to the directory. "

My question is : How do I delete an non-empty directory using this function ? Is that posible ? Any help will be apreciate !

Answer 1

The short answer is that you don't.

If you need to remove a non-empty directory, you do a depth-first traversal of the directory structure. As you traverse an individual directory, you erase all the files it contains. If it contains any sub-directories, you traverse into them, deleting their contents then deleting the (now empty) directory. Lather, rinse, repeat.

Alternatively, use SHFileOperation or (if you're feeling truly masochistic) IFileOperation , to handle the heavy lifting for you (but beware that the latter is a COM interface, so getting it to handle the heavy lifting will be at least twice as much work as doing the job yourself).