Hello y'all,
I'm trying to script MetaCard 2.5 so that it can DELETE a FOLDER. But it just
doesn't work, no matter what I try. Given my experience with the command-line
in DOS and in UNIX, I know that one cannot delete a folder that has something
*in* it. So I tried emptying the files in my to-be-deleted folder. This works
fine, for the visible files but one-or-more of the *invisible* files are hard
to get-rid-of, namely "icon%OD" or just "icon" ... it varies!
I think I have managed to empty all of the files from my to-be-deleted folder
but it also contains an invisible folder, e.g. "..". From my CLI experience I
know that this is what one types in order to go UP one-level in the hierarchy
of the filesystem, e.g. next-folder-up. But I can't seem to DELETE it ! It's
like I'm not-allowed to do it. Do I need to set the access-priviledges to 777
or something? I test-for the existence of this ".." folder, BEFORE+AFTER trying
to delete it, and confirms the existence of this folder in BOTH cases ; IOW,
the folder was NOT deleted!!!
I even tried setting the directory one-level-up so that the system is in a
location that will still exist once I delete the folder the system used to be
in .. again from my CLI experience.
So what gives ?? Can we delete folders or not ??
Please HELP me if you can, I'm feeling down_own_own. And I would appreciate you
being around_own_own ... won't you PLEASE, please, PLEASE help me, help me
HELP-me .... ou hou ! ;-)
on deleteFolder folderPath
-- insert your handler here! :-)
end deleteFolder
Alain
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