编者注:尽管这个答案包含了一些有用的信息，但关于Directory.Delete的工作原理实际上是不正确的。请阅读这个答案的评论，以及这个问题的其他答案。

我以前遇到过这个问题。

The root of the problem is that this function does not delete files that are within the directory structure. So what you'll need to do is create a function that deletes all the files within the directory structure then all the directories before removing the directory itself. I know this goes against the second parameter but it's a much safer approach. In addition, you will probably want to remove READ-ONLY access attributes from the files right before you delete them. Otherwise that will raise an exception.

只需将这些代码放入您的项目中。

public static void DeleteDirectory(string target_dir)
{
    string[] files = Directory.GetFiles(target_dir);
    string[] dirs = Directory.GetDirectories(target_dir);

    foreach (string file in files)
    {
        File.SetAttributes(file, FileAttributes.Normal);
        File.Delete(file);
    }

    foreach (string dir in dirs)
    {
        DeleteDirectory(dir);
    }

    Directory.Delete(target_dir, false);
}

另外，对我个人来说，我对允许删除的机器区域添加了一个限制，因为你希望有人在C:\ windows (%WinDir%)或C:\。

以上的解决方案都不适合我。我最终使用了一个编辑版本的@ryascl解决方案，如下所示:

    /// <summary>
    /// Depth-first recursive delete, with handling for descendant 
    /// directories open in Windows Explorer.
    /// </summary>
    public static void DeleteDirectory(string path)
    {
        foreach (string directory in Directory.GetDirectories(path))
        {
            Thread.Sleep(1);
            DeleteDir(directory);
        }
        DeleteDir(path);
    }

    private static void DeleteDir(string dir)
    {
        try
        {
            Thread.Sleep(1);
            Directory.Delete(dir, true);
        }
        catch (IOException)
        {
            DeleteDir(dir);
        }
        catch (UnauthorizedAccessException)
        {
            DeleteDir(dir);
        }
    }

在继续之前，检查一下你能控制的以下原因:

该文件夹是否设置为您的进程的当前目录?如果是，请先将其更改为其他内容。 您是否从该文件夹中打开了文件(或加载了DLL) ?(并且忘记关闭/卸载它)

否则，请检查以下不在你控制范围内的合理原因:

该文件夹中有标记为只读的文件。 您没有删除其中一些文件的权限。 文件或子文件夹在资源管理器或其他应用程序中打开。

如果是上述任何一个问题，在尝试改进删除代码之前，您应该了解为什么会发生这种情况。你的应用程序是否应该删除只读或不可访问的文件?是谁给它们做的标记，为什么?

一旦排除了上述原因，仍然存在虚假失败的可能性。如果任何人持有任何被删除的文件或文件夹的句柄，删除将失败，并且有人可能会枚举文件夹或读取其文件的原因有很多:

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处理虚假失败的一般方法是尝试多次，在尝试之间暂停。显然，您不希望一直尝试下去，因此应该在一定次数的尝试后放弃，并抛出异常或忽略错误。是这样的:

private static void DeleteRecursivelyWithMagicDust(string destinationDir) {
    const int magicDust = 10;
    for (var gnomes = 1; gnomes <= magicDust; gnomes++) {
        try {
            Directory.Delete(destinationDir, true);
        } catch (DirectoryNotFoundException) {
            return;  // good!
        } catch (IOException) { // System.IO.IOException: The directory is not empty
            System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine("Gnomes prevent deletion of {0}! Applying magic dust, attempt #{1}.", destinationDir, gnomes);

            // see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/329355/cannot-delete-directory-with-directory-deletepath-true for more magic
            Thread.Sleep(50);
            continue;
        }
        return;
    }
    // depending on your use case, consider throwing an exception here
}

在我看来，像这样的帮助器应该用于所有的删除，因为虚假的失败总是可能的。然而，你应该根据你的用例调整这些代码，而不是盲目地复制它。

我的应用程序生成的内部数据文件夹，位于%LocalAppData%下，所以我的分析如下:

The folder is controlled solely by my application, and the user has no valid reason to go and mark things as read-only or inaccessible inside that folder, so I don't try to handle that case. There's no valuable user-created stuff in there, so there's no risk of forcefully deleting something by mistake. Being an internal data folder, I don't expect it to be open in explorer, at least I don't feel the need to specifically handle the case (i.e. I'm fine handling that case via support). If all attempts fail, I choose to ignore the error. Worst case, the app fails to unpack some newer resources, crashes and prompts the user to contact support, which is acceptable to me as long as it does not happen often. Or, if the app does not crash, it will leave some old data behind, which again is acceptable to me. I choose to limit retries to 500ms (50 * 10). This is an arbitrary threshold which works in practice; I wanted the threshold to be short enough so that users wouldn't kill the app, thinking that it has stopped responding. On the other hand, half a second is plenty of time for the offender to finish processing my folder. Judging from other SO answers which sometimes find even Sleep(0) to be acceptable, very few users will ever experience more than a single retry. I retry every 50ms, which is another arbitrary number. I feel that if a file is being processed (indexed, checked) when I try to delete it, 50ms is about the right time to expect the processing to be completed in my case. Also, 50ms is small enough to not result in a noticeable slowdown; again, Sleep(0) seems to be enough in many cases, so we don't want to delay too much. The code retries on any IO exceptions. I don't normally expect any exceptions accessing %LocalAppData%, so I chose simplicity and accepted the risk of a 500ms delay in case a legitimate exception happens. I also didn't want to figure out a way to detect the exact exception that I want to retry on.

如果您的应用程序(或任何其他应用程序)的当前目录是您试图删除的目录，这将不是访问冲突错误，而是目录不是空的。 通过更改当前目录，确保它不是您自己的应用程序;同时，确保该目录没有在其他程序中打开(例如Word, excel, Total Commander等)。大多数程序将cd到最后打开的文件的目录，这将导致这种情况。

有一件重要的事情需要提一下(我把它作为注释添加了进去，但是不允许我这样做)，那就是重载的行为从。net 3.5改变到了。net 4.0。

Directory.Delete(myPath, true);

从。net 4.0开始，它会删除文件夹中的文件，但在3.5中不会。在MSDN文档中也可以看到这一点。

net 4.0

删除指定的目录，如果指定，删除该目录中的任何子目录和文件。

net 3.5

删除一个空目录，如果指定，删除目录中的任何子目录和文件。

If you are trying to recursively delete directory a and directory a\b is open in Explorer, b will be deleted but you will get the error 'directory is not empty' for a even though it is empty when you go and look. The current directory of any application (including Explorer) retains a handle to the directory. When you call Directory.Delete(true), it deletes from bottom up: b, then a. If b is open in Explorer, Explorer will detect the deletion of b, change directory upwards cd .. and clean up open handles. Since the file system operates asynchronously, the Directory.Delete operation fails due to conflicts with Explorer.

不完整的解决方案

我最初发布了以下解决方案，想法是中断当前线程，让资源管理器有时间释放目录句柄。

// incomplete!
try
{
    Directory.Delete(path, true);
}
catch (IOException)
{
    Thread.Sleep(0);
    Directory.Delete(path, true);
}

但是，只有当打开的目录是您正在删除的目录的直接子目录时，这才有效。如果a\b\c\d在资源管理器中是打开的，并且你在a上使用这个，这个技术在删除d和c后将会失败。

一个更好的解决方案

此方法将处理深层目录结构的删除，即使在资源管理器中打开了一个较低级别的目录。

/// <summary>
/// Depth-first recursive delete, with handling for descendant 
/// directories open in Windows Explorer.
/// </summary>
public static void DeleteDirectory(string path)
{
    foreach (string directory in Directory.GetDirectories(path))
    {
        DeleteDirectory(directory);
    }

    try
    {
        Directory.Delete(path, true);
    }
    catch (IOException) 
    {
        Directory.Delete(path, true);
    }
    catch (UnauthorizedAccessException)
    {
        Directory.Delete(path, true);
    }
}

尽管我们自己要做额外的递归工作，但我们仍然必须处理过程中可能发生的UnauthorizedAccessException。尚不清楚第一次删除尝试是否为第二次成功的删除尝试铺平了道路，或者仅仅是抛出/捕获异常导致的时间延迟，允许文件系统赶上。

通过在try块的开头添加Thread.Sleep(0)，可以减少在典型条件下抛出和捕获的异常数量。此外，在系统负载较重的情况下，您可能会同时浏览这两个目录。删除尝试并失败。可以将此解决方案作为更健壮的递归删除的起点。

一般的答案

此解决方案仅处理与Windows资源管理器交互的特性。如果你想要一个坚如磐石的删除操作，有一件事要记住，任何东西(病毒扫描程序，无论什么)都可能在任何时候对你试图删除的东西有一个开放的句柄。所以你得稍后再试。多久之后，以及尝试了多少次，取决于删除对象的重要性。正如MSDN所示，

健壮的文件迭代代码必须考虑到许多复杂性 文件系统的。

这个无辜的声明，只提供了一个到NTFS参考文档的链接，应该会让你汗毛直竖。

(编辑:很多。这个答案原来只有第一个不完全解。)