🚀 go-pugleaf

On 26 Feb 1996 16:02:04 GMT, Frode Bakkeslett Hagen articulated:
<> I've got a weird problem. I have a directory which seems 
<> impossible to delete. I've tried dopus. It does the delete-operation, 
<> but afterwards the directory is still there. I tried to move it to ram,
<> but that didn't work either (the dir was copied to ram, but not deleted from
<> the hd.). Tried to delete it from dos. Got the message "directory not empty", even
<> if it is. Even tried Disksalv without luck.
<> 
<> I could of course rename the dir, and use it for something else. But because of this
<> dir, I'm also prevented from deleting three other empty dirs, which this dir resides in
<> (news/uunews/comp/sys)
<> 
<> It would be nice to be able to get rid of it without having to format the entire 
<> partition. :-)
<> 
<> Any suggestions?

Sounds like you may have it assigned somewhere. Try this
from a Shell:

assign directoryname:

Now try to delete it from the Shell with this:

delete dirname/#? all
delete dirname

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