Delete folder on Network Drive

I want to delete a folder on a network drive through jscript. I have
tried everything and I can't delete and folders on that drive. I have
tried the fileSystem object and WScript.Shell. Nothing will erase it.
the folders exists and my paths are correct but I cant delete. Using
windows explorer, I can delete with no problem. Using DOS, no problem.
Using VB6 with FSO or WinAPI's, no problem again. But when I try any of
these methods from jscript it wont erase. It says path not found. But
that doesnt make sense because I check to see if the folderexists
first, and it returns true!

I even wrote an exe in VB6 to erase it, and it works great from
windows. BUT when i shell to the exe in jscript, it fails!

I have shown the "My Computer Zone" in Internet Explorer, and enabled
as much stuff as I thought needed. I am stupmed. My only guess is when
I run things through explorer, I have a different set of user rights,
than when I run things from the browser.

Any Ideas?!?

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I want to delete a folder on a network drive through jscript. I have
tried everything and I can't delete and folders on that drive. I have
tried the fileSystem object and WScript.Shell. Nothing will erase it.
the folders exists and my paths are correct but I cant delete. Using
windows explorer, I can delete with no problem. Using DOS, no problem.
Using VB6 with FSO or WinAPI's, no problem again. But when I try any of
these methods from jscript it wont erase. It says path not found. But
that doesnt make sense because I check to see if the folderexists
first, and it returns true!

I even wrote an exe in VB6 to erase it, and it works great from
windows. BUT when i shell to the exe in jscript, it fails!

I have shown the "My Computer Zone" in Internet Explorer, and enabled
as much stuff as I thought needed. I am stupmed. My only guess is when
I run things through explorer, I have a different set of user rights,
than when I run things from the browser.

Absolutly, when you run a .js file by clicking in explorer it
just calls wscript.exe to run the script, it has nothing to
do with IE or your internet security settings.

You should reset those settings.

Any Ideas?!?

More of a wild guess realy.

Are you doubling the backslashes \'s ?, i.e:

var folder_to_delete = "\\\\ShareName\\folder\\folder";

Rob.
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http://www.victim-prime.dsl.pipex.com/

Rob Williscroft wrote:

wrote in news:1154220313.303954.324470 (AT) m73g2000cwd (DOT) googlegroups.com in
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I want to delete a folder on a network drive through jscript. I have
tried everything and I can't delete and folders on that drive. I have
tried the fileSystem object and WScript.Shell. Nothing will erase it.
the folders exists and my paths are correct but I cant delete. Using
windows explorer, I can delete with no problem. Using DOS, no problem.
Using VB6 with FSO or WinAPI's, no problem again. But when I try any of
these methods from jscript it wont erase. It says path not found. But
that doesnt make sense because I check to see if the folderexists
first, and it returns true!

I even wrote an exe in VB6 to erase it, and it works great from
windows. BUT when i shell to the exe in jscript, it fails!

I have shown the "My Computer Zone" in Internet Explorer, and enabled
as much stuff as I thought needed. I am stupmed. My only guess is when
I run things through explorer, I have a different set of user rights,
than when I run things from the browser.

Absolutly, when you run a .js file by clicking in explorer it
just calls wscript.exe to run the script, it has nothing to
do with IE or your internet security settings.

You should reset those settings.


Any Ideas?!?

More of a wild guess realy.

Are you doubling the backslashes \'s ?, i.e:

var folder_to_delete = "\\\\ShareName\\folder\\folder";

Rob.
--
http://www.victim-prime.dsl.pipex.com/

Thanks for the responce rob

I did try to double the slashes.. with no luck

I am not using a UNC path I am using a network drive

Z:\temp for ezample

would this change anything?

Treason wrote in
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Rob Williscroft wrote:
wrote in news:1154220313.303954.324470 (AT) m73g2000cwd (DOT) googlegroups.com
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I want to delete a folder on a network drive through jscript. I


Any Ideas?!?

More of a wild guess realy.

Are you doubling the backslashes \'s ?, i.e:

var folder_to_delete = "\\\\ShareName\\folder\\folder";

Rob.
--
http://www.victim-prime.dsl.pipex.com/

Thanks for the responce rob

I did try to double the slashes.. with no luck

I am not using a UNC path I am using a network drive

Z:\temp for ezample

would this change anything?

Well the string that you pass to fso.DeleteFolder() still needs
the backslash doubling:

var fso = new ActiveXObject( "Scripting.FileSystemObject" );
fso.DeleteFolder( "z:\\temp", true );

For a complete list of JScript escapes:

<url:http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...l=/library/en-
us/script56/html/3b38b1bd-1f0f-4748-b13e-55cab36fd126.asp>

As a Tiny URL: http://tinyurl.com/kx4d8

Rob.
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http://www.victim-prime.dsl.pipex.com/