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Re: FILE_DELETE and FILE_CHMOD [message #42010]

Wed, 15 December 2004 08:03

Michael Wallace
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Registered: December 2003

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Miguel Angel Cordoba wrote:
> Hi,
> I need to delete a directory in Windows and I use the IDL
> routine FILE_DELETE. The problem is at the file access
> permissions. I want to change the access permissions for all
> files and subdirectories off the directory using the FILE_CHMOD
> routine but this routine don't works in recursive mode.
> Any ideas?.
>
> Thanks.
>

Do a File_Search to get a list of all filenames within the directory and
then send that list to File_Chmod. I haven't tried it out, but I think
that should work.

files = File_Search("some_directory", "*")
File_Chmod, files, ...

-Mike

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		Re: FILE_DELETE and FILE_CHMOD By: Michael Wallace on Wed, 15 December 2004 08:03
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