{"id":7104,"date":"2022-09-06T22:02:20","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T16:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-deleting-file-in-ntfs-using-c\/"},"modified":"2022-09-06T22:02:20","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T16:32:20","slug":"solved-deleting-file-in-ntfs-using-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-deleting-file-in-ntfs-using-c\/","title":{"rendered":"[Solved] deleting file in ntfs using c"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"answer-5247804\" class=\"answer js-answer accepted-answer js-accepted-answer\" data-answerid=\"5247804\" data-parentid=\"5247120\" data-score=\"8\" data-position-on-page=\"1\" data-highest-scored=\"1\" data-question-has-accepted-highest-score=\"1\" itemprop=\"acceptedAnswer\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Answer\">\n<div class=\"post-layout\">\n<div class=\"votecell post-layout--left\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"answercell post-layout--right\">\n<div class=\"s-prose js-post-body\" itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>The call to <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/aa363915%28VS.85%29.aspx\"><code>DeleteFile()<\/code><\/a> does work and in your case it did work.<\/p>\n<p><code>DeleteFile()<\/code> is contracted to delete the file you specify, if it can be deleted.  If the file could be deleted, then it will be. If the file could not be deleted then it will not be.<\/p>\n<p>If <code>DeleteFile()<\/code> returns false, what the documentation refers to as <em>failure<\/em>, then the file was not deleted, for a good reason.  You can call <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/ms679360%28VS.85%29.aspx\"><code>GetLastError()<\/code><\/a> to find out why the file was not deleted.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mt24\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>            <span class=\"d-none\" itemprop=\"commentCount\"><\/span> <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n<p>solved deleting file in ntfs using c <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The call to DeleteFile() does work and in your case it did work. DeleteFile() is contracted to delete the file you specify, if it can be deleted. If the file could be deleted, then it will be. If the file could not be deleted then it will not be. 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