not able to delete the directory through Java

Question

In my application I have written the code to delete the directory from drive but when I inspect the delete function of File it doesn\'t delete the file. I have written some thin

Answer 1

Two other possibilities (besides the directory not being empty):

• The user which runs the java program does not have write/delete permission for the directory
• The directory is used/locked by a different process (you write that it's not, but how have you confirmed this?)