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Delete all the files in it.Delete the folder.

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It happened to me too, some folders didn't have anything inside and still says "you can't delete unempty folders" so the solution I found, go to your Control panel / Site Managment Tools / File Manager, click in the folder and in the upper right submenu, click Delete this folder and all files under it , then go down and Trash to erase it for ever.

 

Greets Deivid

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It happened to me too, some folders didn't have anything inside and still says "you can't delete unempty folders" so the solution I found, go to your Control panel / Site Managment Tools / File Manager, click in the folder and in the upper right submenu, click Delete this folder and all files under it , then go down and Trash to erase it for ever.

 

Greets Deivid

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Regarding not being able to delete an empty folder, it is most likely that there is a partial transfer in it. If the entire file did not transfer you won't get the little file icon to click to delete. You have to use cp as stated. ^_^

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Use ssh

 

rm -rf folder

 

r = recursive

f = force

 

Simple and easy

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I think that most of us hosted at Xisto don't have SSH access.

I know that SSH really speeds web development as I had SSH access at SourceForge.

If your FTP client is good, it will automatically recruse through the sub-folders and delete the contents.

Such a client is FileZill (which I use).

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when you try and delete an unempty folder with FileZilla, it will recursively go through the folder, making a list of all the files. It then deletes all the files in one go, and then deletes the foldersanother way to delete the folder would be to use http://www.net2ftp.com/ to connect to the FTP, and delete the folder through there. It's much quicker than waiting for FileZilla to scan the whole directory

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Guys, everyone at Xisto.com can ask to have SSH enabled on their accounts, just mail the helpdesk/support desk. They'll fix it, i got mine enabled after one hour after sending the mail.

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If you're willing to use another ftp client (you didn't say what FTP client you use...)

i'ld recommend WS_FTP. You can conffure your client so it's allowed to delete unempty folders...

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Delete all the files in it.Delete the folder.


it's a partial solution... and in some cases.... the harderst... useless (refereing to webpages that count with A LOT of folders and subfolders.. and subfolders.. an so on, la CMS.. for ex)...

So, what i'ld recommend is that you get a fine FTP client, read it's specification, and delete your folders in the easy intelligent way.

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Just type rmdir/? and it give you options after wards it showed me that typing rmdir/s will delete the dir and the file tree or whatever just be careful cause you can't get it back unless you spend some money. -reply by whocares

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