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From: "David Christensen" <dpchrist AT holgerdanske DOT com>
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Subject: RE: Unable to delete a number of directories...
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 14:20:31 -0800
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Evan Platt wrote:
> ... I have the following directories that won't delete (all under
> \Cygwin):

My guess is that it's a Windows NTFS permissions issue.  Assuming you want to
blow away the entire C:\cygwin tree and start again fresh:  log on as
Administrator, take ownership recursively of the entire tree, and reset
permissions recursively of the entire tree.  You then should be able to delete
it.

HTH,

David


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