Java Utililty Methods Recursive Delete

List of utility methods to do Recursive Delete

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Description

The list of methods to do Recursive Delete are organized into topic(s).

Method

booleanrecursiveDeleteNoCheck(File f)
recursive Delete No Check 
try {
    if (f.isDirectory()) {
        File[] files = f.listFiles();
        for (int i = 0; i < files.length; i++) {
            if (!recursiveDeleteNoCheck(files[i])) {
                return (false);
        if (!f.delete()) {
            return (false);
    } else {
        if (!f.delete()) {
            return (false);
} catch (Exception ignore) {
return (true);
booleanrecursiveDeleteNoCheck(File f)
recursive Delete No Check 
try {
    if (f.isDirectory()) {
        File[] files = f.listFiles();
        for (int i = 0; i < files.length; i++) {
            if (!recursiveDeleteNoCheck(files[i])) {
                return (false);
        if (!f.delete()) {
            return (false);
    } else {
        if (!f.delete()) {
            return (false);
} catch (Exception ignore) {
return (true);
voidrecursiveDeleteOnExit(File parent)
Recursively delete parent folder on exit of JVM 
parent.deleteOnExit();
if (parent.isDirectory()) {
    File[] files = parent.listFiles();
    for (int ifile = 0; ifile < files.length; ++ifile) {
        if (files[ifile].isDirectory()) {
            recursiveDeleteOnExit(files[ifile]);
        files[ifile].deleteOnExit();
...
voidrecursiveDeleteOnExit(File rootDir)
Recursively set this directory to be deleted on termination of the JVM (using File#deleteOnExit() ). 
recursiveDeleteOnExitHelper(rootDir);
voidrecursiveDeleteOnExitHelper(File fileOrDir)
recursive Delete On Exit Helper 
fileOrDir.deleteOnExit();
if (fileOrDir.isDirectory()) {
    for (File file : fileOrDir.listFiles()) {
        recursiveDeleteOnExitHelper(file);
voidrecursivelyDelete(File aDirectory)
Recursively deletes the given directory and all of its nested contents. 
if (!aDirectory.isDirectory()) {
    return;
File[] files = aDirectory.listFiles();
if (files != null) {
    for (File file : files) {
        if (file.isFile()) {
            file.delete();
...
voidrecursivelyDelete(File dir)
recursively Delete 
if (!dir.getPath().equals(dir.getCanonicalPath())) {
    return;
File[] contents = dir.listFiles();
if (contents != null) {
    for (File d : contents) {
        if (d.isDirectory()) {
            recursivelyDelete(d);
...
voidrecursivelyDelete(final File root, final boolean deleteRoot)
Recursively deletes the contents of the given directory (and possibly the directory itself). 
if (root.isDirectory()) {
    final File[] contents = root.listFiles();
    for (final File child : contents) {
        recursivelyDelete(child, true);
if (deleteRoot) {
    if (!root.delete()) {
...
voidrecursivelyDelete(String loc)
recursively Delete 
recursivelyDelete(new File(loc));
voidrecursivelyDeleteEmptyDirectories(File fileToDelete)
recursively Delete Empty Directories 
if (fileToDelete.isDirectory()) {
    for (File subFile : fileToDelete.listFiles()) {
        recursivelyDeleteEmptyDirectories(subFile);
    if (fileToDelete.listFiles().length == 0) {
        fileToDelete.delete();