Alain Farmer wrote:
Thanks for your advice, Brian. :)
If you are really stuck in Transcript land, you could try
using shell() to call through to the command-line where
things behave like you are accustomed to? If you use "rm"
on the command line (UNIX / Linux / MacOS X), there are
options to recurse and force delete everything ...
But.. unfortunately.. I'm NOT using a UNIX-based OS. In this case, I'm using a
Mac Classic 9.x for my MetaCard work. As you probably know old Mac's don't
provide SHELL-access!
OTOH, since MetaCard 2.5 runs on OLD macs, as well as new ones, and provides the
"delete folder fPath" syntax, I should still be able to do this, without
upgrading to a UNIX-based machine (Mac or otherwise).
Anyone-else want to chip-in some additional information ? :)
You can get the "detailed files" and the "detailed folders". This will
give you full listings of everything, including hidden items. Then
you'll need to run a loop to walk the directories, deleting all the
files in each file list, and getting the files inside each folder in the
folder list. After that, "delete folder" should work.
I vaguely recall an ancient bug with "delete folder" that has long since
been corrected, but I don't remember if 2.5 has the fix or not. I think
it does. You could test by creating a single empty folder in the finder,
and then seeing if MC will delete it.
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