RD command not working

[Bunny]

I'm trying to delete a folder after the contents have been moved, but the RD command doesn't delete the folder.

I can create a batch file with the RD command and it works.

 

These are the installion commands.

START "" /B /MIN /WAIT "C:\Users\User\Desktop\Utility icons\Ketarin-1.7.0\Apps\Art\7z.exe" x "{file}" -bd -o"C:\Users\User\Desktop\Utility icons\Ketarin-1.7.0\Apps\Art\aaa\" -y
CD "C:\Users\User\Desktop\Utility icons\Ketarin-1.7.0\Apps\Art\aaa\blender-*-win64"
RD "C:\Users\User\Desktop\My stuff\Art Tutorials\Art\Blender Dev"
xcopy /y /S /Q *.* "C:\Users\User\Desktop\My stuff\Art Tutorials\Art\Blender Dev\"
rd "C:\Users\User\Desktop\Utility icons\Ketarin-1.7.0\Apps\Art\aaa" /s /q

I've tried start and call to start the batch file when the folder should be deleted and they didn't work.

 

Have I missed something?

[necrox]

Are you talking about the Blender Dev folder? The /S key is missing.
 
RD /S /Q "{file:directory}\your-folder-name"

 

Syntax
RD pathname
RD /S pathname
RD /S /Q pathname

Key
/S : Delete all files and subfolders in addition to the folder itself. Use this to remove an entire folder tree.
/Q : Quiet - do not display YN confirmation

[Bunny]

Are you talking about the Blender Dev folder? The /S key is missing.

 

RD /S /Q "{file:directory}\your-folder-name"

 

Syntax

RD pathname

RD /S pathname

RD /S /Q pathname

 

Key

/S : Delete all files and subfolders in addition to the folder itself. Use this to remove an entire folder tree.

/Q : Quiet - do not display YN confirmation

It doesn't matter if it's there or not. RD just doesn't work for some reason.

[GaronneBC]

Well... It definitely won't work without, as the folder is most likely not empty. RD (without /s) only acts on empty folders...

[Bunny]

Well... It definitely won't work without, as the folder is most likely not empty. RD (without /s) only acts on empty folders...

I know that. I tried it with and without it and it made no difference. empty or full it had no effect on the folder. outside of Ketarin RD works like it's supposed to.

[necrox]

To locate the problem, please safe the RD command into a batch file and let Ketarin execute the batch instead.

[shawn]

Have you tried running it as successive commands? Use "&&" to proceed to the next command only if the first succeeds, which means the first process has to complete before the second command will run.

 

 

"C:\Users\User\Desktop\Utility icons\Ketarin-1.7.0\Apps\Art\7zc.exe" x -y "{file}" -bd -o"C:\Users\User\Desktop\Utility icons\Ketarin-1.7.0\Apps\Art\aaa\" && CD "C:\Users\User\Desktop\Utility icons\Ketarin-1.7.0\Apps\Art\aaa\blender-*-win64" && RD "C:\Users\User\Desktop\My stuff\Art Tutorials\Art\Blender Dev" && xcopy /y /S /Q *.* "C:\Users\User\Desktop\My stuff\Art Tutorials\Art\Blender Dev\" && rd "C:\Users\User\Desktop\Utility icons\Ketarin-1.7.0\Apps\Art\aaa" /s /q

[Bunny]

To locate the problem, please safe the RD command into a batch file and let Ketarin execute the batch instead.

I've tried call and start. call does nothing. start gives a cmd window saying the folder is being used by another process which I assume is Ketarin. The batch file works when started outside of Ketarin.

Any other way to start a batch file from another batch file?

 

 

Have you tried running it as successive commands? Use "&&" to proceed to the next command only if the first succeeds, which means the first process has to complete before the second command will run.

"C:\Users\User\Desktop\Utility icons\Ketarin-1.7.0\Apps\Art\7zc.exe" x -y "{file}" -bd -o"C:\Users\User\Desktop\Utility icons\Ketarin-1.7.0\Apps\Art\aaa\" && CD "C:\Users\User\Desktop\Utility icons\Ketarin-1.7.0\Apps\Art\aaa\blender-*-win64" && RD "C:\Users\User\Desktop\My stuff\Art Tutorials\Art\Blender Dev" && xcopy /y /S /Q *.* "C:\Users\User\Desktop\My stuff\Art Tutorials\Art\Blender Dev\" && rd "C:\Users\User\Desktop\Utility icons\Ketarin-1.7.0\Apps\Art\aaa" /s /q

With and without start at the beginning and correcting the 7zc spelling error. it did nothing.

[Omniferum]

RD [/s] [/Q] [drive:]path

 

In all the examples you provide, you've put the /S /Q flags 'after' the path which can be just a bit confusing depending on situation.

 

Primarily though, START "" /WAIT can conflict with the /B flag - basically the /WAIT does not fire and so all those commands are being executed without actually waiting for the 7z

"C:\Users\User\Desktop\Utility icons\Ketarin-1.7.0\Apps\Art\7z.exe" x "{file}" -o"C:\Users\User\Desktop\Utility icons\Ketarin-1.7.0\Apps\Art\aaa\" -y
CD "C:\Users\User\Desktop\Utility icons\Ketarin-1.7.0\Apps\Art\aaa\blender-*-win64"
RD "C:\Users\User\Desktop\My stuff\Art Tutorials\Art\Blender Dev"
XCOPY /Y /S /Q *.* "C:\Users\User\Desktop\My stuff\Art Tutorials\Art\Blender Dev\"
RD /S /Q "C:\Users\User\Desktop\Utility icons\Ketarin-1.7.0\Apps\Art\aaa"

The above should work fine.

 

Keep in mind that Ketarin doesn't actually fire off a 'batch file', it just sends the command as if you were typing them into the cmd.exe window yourself and pressing enter as necessary.

[Guest Rainie]

I can confirm that rd command doesn't work when used in "Setup"/"Custom script" tab. After many tries I just made a standalone batch file and used "Start Process" instruction:

cmd.exe /c install.bat {file}

That worked for me.

Of course, the deletion command was "rd %tmpdir% /S /Q" in both attempts.