[Virtualacorn-list] Unable to delete sub directories in HostFS mount

[Chris Newman]

In article <54e7a8a0eebrian.jordan9 at btinternet.com>,
   Brian Jordan <brian.jordan9 at btinternet.com> wrote:
> This has probably been around a long while but I have only just
> discovered that I can't delete sub drectories in HostFS mounts from RISC
> OS.
> I had a mount full of directories containing a website mirror on this
> machine. After archiving it to an external drive I tried to clear out the
> mount but found that I couldn't delete the original directories nor the
> files in them using Select all -> Delete from RISC OS. I opened the
> directories individually and easily deleted all the files so that I
> eventually had a mount full of empty directories and sub directories but
> even then I couldn't delete them using RISC OS. Is this normal behaviour
> or, is it something that the new Windows 8 compatible VA addresses? I was
> able to go to the mount from file explorer under windows and easily
> delete the directories so am a little confused.

With Virtual Acorn SA 4.02 StrongArm on Windows XP I occasionally get files
or directories that won't delete within RiscOS so have to be done from the
Widows side but only one or two. Mostly they can be removed from RiscOS.

-- 
Chris