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aa1
Contributor
6 years ago

Deleting folders does not work

Hi, I am trying to delete a folder from my local directory. The following piece of code seems to run for the first two or one folders and then it crashes. I cannot seem to  understand what is wrong. ...
  • tristaanogre's avatar
    tristaanogre
    6 years ago

    I think the problem is that if FindFolders doesn't find anything, it doesn't return a collection at all but a "null" value.  The code you shold use is, instead of  

     

     if (foldersToDelete.Count > 0)

    replace with 

     

    if (foldersToDelete != null)
  • AlexKaras's avatar
    AlexKaras
    6 years ago

    Hi,

     

    I think Robert is correct. .Count is not a property of the result returned by .FindFolders() method. Refer to the code sample provided in the documentation for this method.

     

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aa1
Contributor

Thank you so much. It worked. I had tried  if (!strictEqual(foundFolders, null)) and it did not work somehow but hadn't tried using

if (foldersToDelete != null)

 

 

AlexKaras's avatar
AlexKaras
Champion Level 3
6 years ago

Hi,

 

strictEqual() should work for JavaScript, while check for null should be used for JScript.

Does this correspond to your situation?

 

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    aa1
    Contributor
    6 years ago

    Ok that makes sense now. I am using Jscript. Thats why it failed. Thank you for the pointer .