In my application I have written the code to delete the directory from drive but when I inspect the delete function of File it doesn't delete the file. I have written some thing like this
//Code to delete the directory if it exists
File directory = new File("c:\\Report\\");
if(directory.exists())
directory.delete();
The directory is not in use: still it is not able to delete the directory.
in Java, directory deletion is possible only for empty directory, which leads to methods like the following :
/**
* Force deletion of directory
* @param path
* @return
*/
static public boolean deleteDirectory(File path) {
if (path.exists()) {
File[] files = path.listFiles();
for (int i = 0; i < files.length; i++) {
if (files[i].isDirectory()) {
deleteDirectory(files[i]);
} else {
files[i].delete();
}
}
}
return (path.delete());
}
This one will delete your folder, even if non-empty, without troubles (excepted when this directory is locked by OS).