在Windows上，当目录(或任何子目录)中的文件路径长度大于260个符号时，就会出现此问题。

在这种情况下，您需要删除\\\\?\C:\mydir而不是C:\mydir。 大约260个符号的限制，你可以在这里阅读。

我花了几个小时来解决这个问题和删除目录的其他异常。 这就是我的解

 public static void DeleteDirectory(string target_dir)
    {
        DeleteDirectoryFiles(target_dir);
        while (Directory.Exists(target_dir))
        {
            lock (_lock)
            {
                DeleteDirectoryDirs(target_dir);
            }
        }
    }

    private static void DeleteDirectoryDirs(string target_dir)
    {
        System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(100);

        if (Directory.Exists(target_dir))
        {

            string[] dirs = Directory.GetDirectories(target_dir);

            if (dirs.Length == 0)
                Directory.Delete(target_dir, false);
            else
                foreach (string dir in dirs)
                    DeleteDirectoryDirs(dir);
        }
    }

    private static void DeleteDirectoryFiles(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)
        {
            DeleteDirectoryFiles(dir);
        }
    }

这段代码有很小的延迟，这对我的应用程序并不重要。但是要注意，如果要删除的目录中有很多子目录，那么延迟可能会成为一个问题。

这个答案基于:https://stackoverflow.com/a/1703799/184528。与我的代码不同的是，我们只递归许多删除子目录和文件时，需要调用目录。第一次尝试删除失败(这可能是因为windows资源管理器查看目录)。

    public static void DeleteDirectory(string dir, bool secondAttempt = false)
    {
        // If this is a second try, we are going to manually 
        // delete the files and sub-directories. 
        if (secondAttempt)
        {
            // Interrupt the current thread to allow Explorer time to release a directory handle
            Thread.Sleep(0);

            // Delete any files in the directory 
            foreach (var f in Directory.GetFiles(dir, "*.*", SearchOption.TopDirectoryOnly))
                File.Delete(f);

            // Try manually recursing and deleting sub-directories 
            foreach (var d in Directory.GetDirectories(dir))
                DeleteDirectory(d);

            // Now we try to delete the current directory
            Directory.Delete(dir, false);
            return;
        }

        try
        {
            // First attempt: use the standard MSDN approach.
            // This will throw an exception a directory is open in explorer
            Directory.Delete(dir, true);
        }
        catch (IOException)
        {
            // Try again to delete the directory manually recursing. 
            DeleteDirectory(dir, true);
        }
        catch (UnauthorizedAccessException)
        {
            // Try again to delete the directory manually recursing. 
            DeleteDirectory(dir, true);
        } 
    }

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:\。

我已经解决了这个千年技术(你可以离开线程。睡在自己的捕捉)

bool deleted = false;
        do
        {
            try
            {
                Directory.Delete(rutaFinal, true);                    
                deleted = true;
            }
            catch (Exception e)
            {
                string mensaje = e.Message;
                if( mensaje == "The directory is not empty.")
                Thread.Sleep(50);
            }
        } while (deleted == false);

我在特尔斐也遇到过同样的问题。最终的结果是我自己的应用程序锁定了我想要删除的目录。不知何故，当我写入目录(一些临时文件)时，目录被锁定了。

问题在于，在删除它之前，我对它的父目录做了一个简单的更改。