How to solve “The directory is not empty” error when running rmdir command in a batch script?

Question

I am making a batch script and part of the script is trying to remove a directory and all of its sub-directories. I am getting an intermittent error about a sub-directory not be

Answer 1

What worked for me is the following. I appears like the RMDir command will issue “The directory is not empty” nearly all the time...

:Cleanup_Temporary_Files_and_Folders

Erase /F /S /Q C:\MyDir

RMDir /S /Q C:\MyDir
If  Exist  C:\MyDir  GoTo Cleanup_Temporary_Files_and_Folders