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, 15:07, September 18, 2009deleting an empty folder: an exercise in fear and frustration
I've looked around the web for a central repository, a place where all these things are collected, but I couldn't find anything comprehensive. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] <sup>[[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]]</sup> 12:58, 16 September 2009 (EDT)
I've looked around the web for a central repository, a place where all these things are collected, but I couldn't find anything comprehensive. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] <sup>[[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]]</sup> 12:58, 16 September 2009 (EDT)
==Delete empty folder==
You know what's really needed? A simple and painless way to delete an empty folder.
I am so tired of applying the delete command to a folder - which I have just checked and '''know''' is empty -- and then getting the shocking warning: Are you sure you want to remove X and all its contents?
First of all, deleting an empty folder shouldn't even have a confirmation.
Second of all, telling me that it has "contents" is [[false]]. An empty folder cannot have any contents, so why has Microsoft been telling me for the last 10 or 15 years that my empty folders contain things?
It's the perennial persistence of misleading and scary error messages like this which '''completely undermine''' my confidence in Microsoft's operating systems. It's really upsetting that they would let this go on and on, instead of fixing this problem. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] <sup>[[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]]</sup> 11:07, 18 September 2009 (EDT)