Cannot Delete an Empty Folder in Windows 7
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Published on 2012-06-17T19:15:33Z
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I've used this question's answer by user "Moab" to give myself permission to delete an empty folder, so that I no longer get "accessed denied". However, now when I try removing this folder, I get a message that says "The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process." This is merely my "eclipse" (IDE) folder that I totally emptied out and am trying to delete, but for some reason cannot. I've tried quite a few things:
Via Windows Explorer:
- Right Click -> Delete
- Right Click -> Delete
Via Command Prompt
- RD /S /Q eclipse
- del /F eclipse
- rmdir /S eclipse
I'm out of ideas, and I'd really like to delete this folder without having to install any software. I've done a bit of research and this is all I found that I could try. Does anyone have any other ideas?
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