Re: Delete a directory and its contents

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From: "David Ching" <dc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 11:03:31 GMT

"Charles Tam" <CharlesTam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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What is an efficient way to delete a directory and its contents?
Could I avoid iterating through all its contents and delete each one?

I think SHFileOperation with FO_DELETE will allow you to delete a folder and
it's contents all in one time. Just make sure you use double null
terminated strings (2 '\0' at the end) properly.

-- David

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