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The RmDir command can delete a directory only if it doesn't contain files or sub-directories. If the directory you want to delete does contain other files or, worse, subdirectories it seems that you are forced to use a recursive routine that does the job. A simpler solution is offered by the DeleteFolder method of the FileSystemObject object, exposed by the Microsoft Scripting Runtime library: Click here to copy the following block ' NOTE: this code requires that you add a reference to the '    Microsoft Scripting Runtime type library ' delete the C:\TEMP directory and all its sub-directories Dim fso As New Scripting.FileSystemObject fso.DeleteFolder "c:\temp" You can also pass a second argument and set it to True if you want to force the deletion of read-only files: Click here to copy the following block fso.DeleteFolder "c:\temp", True

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