Delete directory fails on first attempt...timing issue? about nant HOT 6 OPEN

This happens all the time but I, too, do not like the idea of simply "ignoring" the error. I want to ensure that everything is deleted before doing a fresh build.

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The "nant deleting directory" issue is really an odd problem. The only way to make it working for me was to do the delete in an own target and calling that target separately:

<target name="clean">
    <delete dir="${build.root}" if="${directory::exists(build.root)}" failonerror="true" />
</target>

Command line:
nant clean
nant build

hth, hfrmobile

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@hfrmobile That's what I'm doing but I still get the error randomly.

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Maybe I'll look into it more but it seems that the RecursiveDeleteDirectory method should basically just call Directory.Delete(path, true). Seems like there's a lot of extra code in here.... https://github.com/nant/nant/blob/master/src/NAnt.Core/Tasks/DeleteTask.cs

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I know this is an old issue, but I still get these failures - the directory reported as "not empty" is always empty when I look at it after the error occurs, and the error can be thrown three or more times on successively higher directories in the tree that Nant is trying to delete as I repeatedly execute my "build clean" target.

Is anyone else still experiencing this problem? Is there a more recent ticket I should look at?

Thanks.

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I experienced the same problem. Using System.IO.Directory.Delete(path, true); in a local build resolved the issue.

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