DelEmpty - lists/erases empty dirs

[Hacker]

Hi,
Having seen many requests / questions about how to easily delete empty dirs, I wrote a small tool that can do this.
http://thehacker.host.sk/myfiles/ and there DelEmpty.zip.
Sources are available upon request.

HTH
Roman

[norfie]

[djk]

2Hacker
It shows me correctly the empty directories. It even says "DELETING...." but... the directories still exist.

I use it like this e.g.:

delempty c:\test\a del fp

I work on WinNT.

[Hacker]

norfie,
You're welcome.

djk,
Hmm, I can reproduce it on W2K... Will take another look at it when I'm home.

Thanks
Roman

[djk]

2Hacker
On Win98 it also works ok. I wil be waiting for your testing.

[Hacker]

OK, DelEmpty 1.01 is available, the bug should be fixed.

Thanks
Roman

[djk]

2Hacker
Unfortunately it still doesn't work but now it says: "FAILED." Any ideas?
I've tried it both on FAT16 and NTFS. I work with full admin rights.

[Hacker]

Darnit no, I don't know, I can reproduce it, though. This time I used the Win32API removedirectory function with the dirname as parameter. Would someone take a look at the code, please? It's rather short. I'll upload it tomorrow. And I'll try to add some debug info. Anyways, we'll see.
And does someone know where to get the newest version of the Win32API Help?

TIA
Roman

[Clo]

2Hacker
  Hi Roman,

And does someone know where to get the newest version of the Win32API Help?

• Following my friend Pierre Gougelet (XnView), have a look at msdn.com ...
Friendly regards,
Claude
Clo

[Hacker]

I have been doing that for the last 30 minutes and couldn't find any downloadable help files regarding the Windows SDK there... (

Roman

[Clo]

2Hacker
• Sorry, I didn't get the exact archive file-name from Pierre...
To find anything at MS' is a pretty mess, especially when it's for free.
Maybe could you try a search using the old version file-name ?
 KR
Clo

[Hacker]

Maybe could you try a search using the old version file-name ?

Well, the problem is that there is no single filename... when I installed Delphi then these help files got installed under Program Files\Common Files\Borland Shared\MSHelp\ and there are about 20 HLP files each called by win32.hlp AFAI understand it.
Oh well. Thanks for trying.

Roman

[JackFoo]

Hi Roman, what exactly is the problem, finding that the dir is empty or deleting it?

Following is an excerpt from RemoveDirectory MSDN specs, note the return value that you can check and also GetLastError. Check the remark it might be that your problem is a direct result of it.

Return Values
If the function succeeds, the return value is nonzero.

If the function fails, the return value is zero. To get extended error information, call GetLastError.

Remarks
The RemoveDirectory function marks a directory for deletion on close. Therefore, the directory is not removed until the last handle to the directory is closed.

[ghisler(Author)]

Would someone take a look at the code, please?

I would, please send it by e-mail or post it to your site.

Btw, if you recursively search subdirs for contained empty dirs, don't forget to call FindClose() on the dir handle, otherwise the dir cannot be deleted.

[Sven]

I have been doing that for the last 30 minutes and couldn't find any downloadable help files regarding the Windows SDK there... (

Roman

Online install: http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/platformsdk/sdkupdate/

Full download: http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/platformsdk/sdkupdate/psdk-full.htm