# Delete Juliabox folder

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/delete-juliabox-folder/5490>\
**Category:** New to Julia\
**Tags:** juliabox\
**Created:** [August 22, 2017, 1:51am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/delete-juliabox-folder/5490 "2017-08-22T01:51:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Copper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Copper](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Copper)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2017, 1:51am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/delete-juliabox-folder/5490/1 "2017-08-22T01:51:07Z")

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I am not entirely new to Julia, working with it on my local installation and I’ve been through many up and downs. Especially I managed to install it on corporate machine with default libraries being diverted on installation to network drive (changed juliarc.jl file and managed some Pkg instructions), a thing many people struggle to overcome.  
I’ve recently started using Juliabox, for the purpose of learning a few new things which I have been supplied through ipynb file, and by adding Plots, Bokeh, Plotlyjs I quickly run out of personal Disk Space of 500MB.  
I have reset my packages through settings and these have been moved to temporary folder which I can easily see and manipulate through Juliabox notebook.  
The issue is that I have searched through all documentation and forums on managing folders and nowhere I find a method how to remove a non-empty folder without cleaning the contents of it first.  
You can imagine that my temporary folder which I would like to erase has folders:  
0.4  
0.5  
0.6  
each having hundreds of folders nested within other folders and cleaning this file by file, folder by folder would take all week, 8 hours per day or even more weeks.  
The most sane situation, as I have run out of disk space of 500MB, is to set up a new profile and start using Juliabox from scratch, and when I run out of disk space, set yet another one.  
But I doubt Julia creators would be so dumb to allow 500MB or any multiplication of this lay idle from this stupid reason of not being able to delete a folder in Juliabox despite it being non-empty.  
Can you help?

Thanks,  
D

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**Author:** ![rdeits](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/rdeits/32/286_2.png) [@rdeits](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rdeits)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2017, 3:40am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/delete-juliabox-folder/5490/2 "2017-08-22T03:40:19Z")

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Does `rm("/path/to/folder", true, true)` do what you want?

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**Author:** ![Copper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Copper](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Copper)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2017, 4:44pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/delete-juliabox-folder/5490/3 "2017-08-22T16:44:32Z")

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Yes, it worked.  
The trouble was that I did not check the contents of my “/home/juser” directory (ie. where the “tmp” directory was placed) with readdir() and intuitively my whole command (or path within it, to be more precise) was:

rm(“/home/juser/.julia/tmp”, force=true, recursive=true)

whereas it should have been:  
rm(“/home/juser/tmp”, force=true, recursive=true)

gr8 thx for your quick reply,  
D