Re: Unable to recirsively delete a directory

[Andrew DeFaria <Andrew at DeFaria dot com>]

Igor Peshansky wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Dave Korn wrote:
>
>   
> > On 16 October 2007 18:18, Paul McFerrin wrote:
> >
> >     
> > > I've been seeing this same problem
> > >       
> >   Specifically on a NAS over SMB?  Or are you talking about something
> > you've seen happen on your local hard drive, which would very likely be
> > a completely different problem?
> >
> >     
> > > since B20!
> > >       
> >   Say, you /could/ have mentioned it a little sooner ...  you've had
> > nearly ten years now to write a bug report, y'know!
> >
> >   The only time I've ever seen anything like this is when I've messed
> > up, and the directory hasn't actually been empty, and I only thought it
> > was because I forgot the -a flag to ls, or I've mistyped something or
> > forgotten some perms.  Pilot error every time.  That's not to say it's
> > impossible, and my first line of attack would be "Is this one of those
> > versioning NASs and is it perhaps treating the directory as
> > not-really-empty-because-you-might-want-to-roll-it-back-I-wonder?".
> >     
>
> FWIW, you can also get this message if some program has an open handle to
> either the directory itself or some file in that directory.  Usually
> either a service or another shell...  Check the cwd of all shells, etc.
> 	Igor
>   
Try Process Explorer....
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