Detetion of Non Empty Folders

[kcvideo]

Merry Christmas Everyone!

One of my websites got over the 15,360 file count limit. (Way over). So I have been doing a lot of labor trimming the site down to get under the cap. I've also bought a 2nd domain to spread things over.

Now I have it ready, down from 22,000 to 8,000 - but uploading is terrible because I cannot delete non empty folders. When I try to delete a entire folder, WS_FTP Pro gives me a message that "!Allow deletion of non empty folders disabled". That means I have to go to the deepest level of a folder and work my way outward.

I looked in Member Ops but do not see a way to change this. Does anyone have any suggestions how I can do this faster. This will literally take days to do it otherwise.

I don't want to wipe the entire website clean because there are some scripts, photo folders and cgi stuff that I should not have to modify

I'd appreciate any suggestions. Thanks

((A big part of my file count problem was FrontPage insisting on putting all these _vti_cnf folders in my web, that doubles the file count. It also makes me have to dig down farther to start deleting...Those are not at all necessary - are they?))

[Naveen]

I use Cute FTP, it deletes folders and content to any deepest level. You should give it a try.

or you can install a file manager to delete the files/folders for you, but I guess your http access would have been disabled.

[tbonekkt]

Internet Explorer can do this as well:

ftp://ftpusername@ftpserver.powweb.com

[kcvideo]

I was thinking that was a PowWeb protection thing but your post made me realize that I needed to change a setting in WS_FTP Pro.

I changed the option and it's working now.
THANKS!

[YvetteKuhns]

Someone else had the same problem. If I couldn't delete an empty folder, I would just put one file in it to delete it. If I couldn't figure out why that was happening. Sometimes the permissions are the reason you cannot delete the folder. You may want to post what you setting you changed for others.

[Naveen]

Originally posted by YvetteKuhns


The user wanted to delete "non empty folder", many ftp progs would not delete the folders which have content. The empty folders should get deleted without any problem. I never had any problems deleting an empty folder.

[Metro]

Originally posted by kcvideo
WS_FTP Pro gives me a message that "!Allow deletion of non empty folders disabled". Hi, in WS_FTP Pro go under PROGRAM OPTIONS and under the GENERAL tab the 2nd box from the bottom needs to be checked for Allow deletion of non empty folders

Works good for me. I'm using v8.0, I don't know if the other versions have this.

[YvetteKuhns]

I personally didn't have this problem, because CuteFTP must have that option allowed. I simply said to add a throwaway file to the empty folder for those who do not know how to change ftp program options.

Metro, Thanks for posting your solution for those who use WS_FTP Pro. This will probably help others as well.

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