Delete folder - Can't delete that folder

[trenatos]

I'm trying to delete, then create a folder to make sure that it's empty, but the result of the delete is "Can't delete this folder"

Is there a way to check for permission errors?

[trenatos]

And solving my own problem:
It seems the issue was that the folder was not empty, so I first loop through and delete all the files in the target folder, THEN do delete folder, and voila it works.

[William Jamieson]

Why doesnt it just work when you delete folder? Is that a LC bug or is that a safety measure?

-Will

[trenatos]

It's a common thing in many languages, though many of them have a specific flag to recurse and delete everything regardless.

[jmburnod]

Hi all,
We had a discuss about that in this thread
http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.ph ... der#p64890
It contains some precisions about differences for Osx and Windows
Best regards
Jean-Marc