# Strange behaviour when deleting directories
**URL:** https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/strange-behaviour-when-deleting-directories/2738
**Category:** Bugs
**Created:** [December 19, 2006, 1:17am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/strange-behaviour-when-deleting-directories/2738 "2006-12-19T01:17:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@stevage](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/stevage)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2006, 1:17am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/strange-behaviour-when-deleting-directories/2738/1 "2006-12-19T01:17:18Z")
Delete a non-existent directory: SuccessDelete an empty directory: SuccessDelete an empty directory “foo” but specify it as "foo ": SuccessDelete a non-empty directory “foo”, but specify it as "foo ": System error 145. The directory is not empty.Steve
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### Author:  [@tate](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/tate)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2006, 3:36am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/strange-behaviour-when-deleting-directories/2738/2 "2006-12-19T03:36:50Z")
Steve,
You can blame Microsoft for this weirdness 🙂 We’re simply calling the “RemoveDirectory” Windows API for this.
.t8
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### Author:  [@stevage](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/stevage)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2006, 4:36am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/strange-behaviour-when-deleting-directories/2738/3 "2006-12-19T04:36:25Z")
Ah, ok. Can I also blame them (via IE7) for eating my line feeds?
Testing
with
BR
tags?
Foo.
Steve
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### Author:  [@tate](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/tate)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2006, 4:49am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/strange-behaviour-when-deleting-directories/2738/4 "2006-12-19T04:49:34Z")
Nah, for that you can blame the Forums module 😉
.t8