can't delete something

[blankstarsorg]

hey everyone,
Well i installed a xmbforum.. messed with it for a bit. then noticed it didnt like me. lol. so i 'unistalled it' in other words deleted, the mySQL database.. and tried to delete all the files associated with it.

Well i can't get rid of them all, i installed it into a folder named "nerd" (name of the MB) and when i tried to delete it.. everything delted correctly except for the images folder. it says "Can't remove directory, directory not empty" ok. fair enough. theres another directory inside the image one. "admin" look in there.. empty. try to delete "admin" same msg. so i got to my control panel and try doing it through the file manager thingy, and thers no option to delete.. i try another directory just to see where it should be.. and yea the option doesnt show up for the "nerd" directory..

how can i get this useless thing off my space? eek

[blankstarsorg]

oh yes, and also i tried to install the xmbforum before into a directory named "bubbles" and i just noticed and that to is still there. empty except for images and admin. =\

[Vin DSL]

If you check, you'll probably find that it's owned by 'nobody'. If that's the case, tech support will have to delete it...

[Ron]

When you say the subdirectory is actually empty, you'd need to use "-a" in your ls command to see any hidden files.

Just for the heck of it, try this one VERY CAREFULLY:

If the directory tree that you want to eliminate is named foo, ensure you are in the directory above it and type

rm -Rf foo

(Capitalization is important) the "f" says force: do it wuithout complaint, and the "R" says to do the command recursively down to the bottom of that directory structure.

If that doesn't work, go to the "toes" of the directory structure, look for hidden files, chmod them to 777, transverse your way back up to the head of the structure, and try the above command again.

Good luck.

[Spathiphyllum]

blankstarsorg,

Just wondering... do you have access to a command line application to perform the actions that Ron described? Since telnet has been removed because of security issues, do you use Putty or WinSCP?

I don't know if working through the cPanel interface will allow command line operations since I never go through its GUI file manager to do anything. (Maybe cPanel has that feature now, I dunno.) The two apps I mentioned will let you do everything you need to do to eliminate hidden or improperly chmod-ed or chown-ed files. FTP clients can probably do the operations too but without the desirable security during command submission. But Ron's hidden file(s) in "toe" directories seems the most likely since many default operations do not let you delete a directory until everything within it is gone first, obviously.