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cant delete folder

 
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Here's the code:


As you can see, I'm deleting all the files inside and making sure the directory is empty before deleting it. Yet it won't get deleted. I have even tried using FileUtils (commons api) but even that gives the same result.
 
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What OS are you working with? What permissions are set on that directory?
 
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Note that Windows won't let you delete a directory if any process has that directory as its current working directory, or if the directory is not empty. It won't let you delete a file that's open for reading or writing. I notice in this code you're not checking the boolean return value of delete(), which returns false for failure.
 
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Im using windows and have full control on the directory. And the boolean value returned is false even when the directory is completely empty. I can delete the folder manually just fine
 
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Originally posted by jaki jane:


That will create a File object representing a file with the given name in the current directory. You want to give it a parent too:


Or, you could try iDir.listFiles() instead of iDir.list() - the former gives you a File[] instead of a String[].
 
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The weird thing is, when the program is run independently it's able to delete the folder. But not when packaged into a jar
 
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