Remove Folders from DDMS

Question

I need to remove a particular folder from the /mnt/sdcard/new.

I am looking at the folder with the DDMS in Eclipse.

How do we remove a particular folder.

Thanks in advance.

Yea then what is the problem, are you able to see the folder inside DDMS ?? If yes you can select and delete it else if you want to do it programmatically then let me know — Daud Arfin, Jul 06 '12 at 06:27
You can't from DDMS, You have to do it by adb shell or programatically, **adb shell rmdir /mnt/sdcard/Folder** — user370305, Jul 06 '12 at 06:30
@Arfin No srry vrry yar..!!You tried is your achievement..!! — Haresh Chaudhary, Jul 06 '12 at 08:22

score 11 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 14 '12 at 09:35

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You can use rm command with -r parameter to delete a nonempty folder.

C:\> adb shell
$ rm -r /mnt/sdcard/Android/data/mydirectory/

NOTE: rmdir can delete only a nonempty folder.

answered Sep 14 '12 at 09:35

Jainendra

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score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 06 '12 at 06:27

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C:\>adb shell
$ rmdir /mnt/sdcard/Android/data/mydirectory/

answered Jul 06 '12 at 06:27

Haresh Chaudhary

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 06 '12 at 06:32

Please use below method for delete folder from sdcard

// Deletes all files and subdirectories under dir.
// Returns true if all deletions were successful.
// If a deletion fails, the method stops attempting to delete and returns false.
public static boolean deleteDir(File dir) {
    if (dir.isDirectory()) {
        String[] children = dir.list();
        for (int i=0; i<children.length; i++) {
            boolean success = deleteDir(new File(dir, children[i]));
            if (!success) {
                return false;
            }
        }
    }

    // The directory is now empty so delete it
    return dir.delete();
}

write below code for call deleteDir() method

// Delete an empty directory
boolean success = (new File("directorypath")).delete();
if (!success) {
    // Deletion failed Message
}

score 0 · Answer 4 · edited Jun 16 '14 at 08:57

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boolean success = (
new File("/data/data/yourpackege/New Folder")).delete();

if (!success) {
         // Deletion failed Message
Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),"not deleted : ", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();

}else{
Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),"  deleted : ", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();

}

edited Jun 16 '14 at 08:57

Danubian Sailor

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answered Jun 16 '14 at 08:39

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Jul 04 '14 at 12:12

If you want to delete any folder from ddms first you have to go to adb shell through cmd simple go to the path where your sdk\platform-tools\ is located ,there is your adb shell

to run command for deleting folders you must first root your device by simply typing

adb root

then you can delete the folder using

rmdir /mnt/sdcard/folder

to delete folder with files

rm -r /mnt/sdcard/folder

hope my answer will help anyone(beginners)

Remove Folders from DDMS

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