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Multi Commander => Support and Feedback => Topic started by: gidi on December 23, 2025, 11:50:11

Title: Delete folders with content
Post by: gidi on December 23, 2025, 11:50:11

Hi there, I'm using current version (15.7) of MC. I'm trying to delete folders with some content (files and/or subfolders). MC forbids me to do this (telling me "Folder is not empty! cannot delete folder XXXX", allowing only to skip, skip all, retry and abort. Since I've a deep nested structure, I should go to the bottom of the structure and deleting level by level - very time-consuming. Is there an option to "force" MC to delete the folder - whatever it contains? Thanks in advance

Title: Re: Delete folders with content
Post by: Mathias (Author) on December 23, 2025, 12:00:58

I does go down and delete every, Unless there are some issue
There must be some permission issue or other issue during the delete, Try run the application as administrator .
I can also be security software that blocks MC from deleting files.

Check fileoperation log (Ctrl+L and switch to correct log tab)

Title: Re: Delete folders with content
Post by: gidi on December 23, 2025, 12:09:52

Thanks Mathias... I've started as administrator, but the File operations log simply tells me:
2025-12-23 12:07:00.982 Failed to delete folder (163) : XXXXXXXX
2025-12-23 12:07:00.982 Handle file Operations error : 163 (0) - Can not delete directory. It is not empty.

I'm not using any particular security software...