Hello Conor,

After fiddling around with your routine I gave up and ended up with this which
works well leaving directory clean of all files and directories thanks
anyway.Al+

procedure TForm1.DelTree(dir: string);
var
  Search: TSearchRec;
  fp: file of byte;
  ok: integer;
begin
  ok := FindFirst(dir + '\*.*', faAnyFile, Search);
  while ok = 0 do begin
    if ((Search.Name <> '.') and (Search.Name <> '..')) then begin
      if ((Search.Attr and faDirectory) > 0) then begin
        DelTree(dir + '\' + Search.Name);
        // sub branch has been searched, so delete it
        RmDir(dir + '\' + Search.Name);
      end
      else begin
        // do something with the file
        assignfile(fp, dir + '\' + Search.Name);
        erase(fp);
      end;
    end;
    ok := FindNext(Search);
  end;
  FindClose(Search);
end;

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