remove file access denied(remove broke)

[Josphe Brigmo]

On Friday, 14 September 2018 at 15:21:21 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 02:36:34PM +0000, Josphe Brigmo via 
> Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: [...]
>> It happens on a bunch. I do get errors or overlong file names 
>> but this doesn't seem to be the case.
>> 
>> The fact is, that simply using execute shell using the same 
>> file name works.  So this is a D problem.
>> 
>> It happens quite often and every time I can delete the files 
>> in file explorer.
>
> It would really help if you post a stripped-down version of the 
> code that exhibits the same problem.  Otherwise we're just 
> guessing what the real problem is.
>
>
> T

It woudln't help. I'm dealing with over a million files and you'd 
need those files too.

But basically all I have done is created a new rename function:

void removeFile(string fn)
{
	if (!isDir(fn))
	{
		// remove(fn)
		setAttributes(fn, 0x80);
		auto ls = executeShell(`del /F /Q "`~fn~`"`);
		if (ls.status != 0) throw new Exception("Cannot delete file 
`"~fn~"`!");
	}
}

And this works and functions appropriately.

The other code is basically just recursively going through the 
directory as standard practice using dirEntries and deleting 
certain files(it's a little more complex since there is some 
logic on the file name, but nothing touches the file except 
delete).