Delete a directory full of file

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I saw that I can use RemoveDirectory but I read that I can use it for empty directory..and I don't find a function that I can use.

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I tried to search on internet, I found only RemoveDirectory

Posted 3-Mar-24 22:01pm

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One small addition to Richard's post - here is a wrapper class around the ShFileOperation function : CShellFileOp - Wrapper for SHFileOperation[^]

Posted 4-Mar-24 4:25am

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Richard Deeming · Accepted Answer · 2024-03-03T22:15:00

Well, you obviously didn't look hard enough. From the documentation:

RemoveDirectoryA function (fileapi.h) - Win32 apps | Microsoft Learn[^]:
To recursively delete the files in a directory, use the SHFileOperation[^] function.

Alternatively, as in the second search result:

c++ - RemoveDirectory() if the directory is not empty? - Stack Overflow[^]:
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.