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Cannot delete files with Filezilla


Once I wrote a PHP script which should have downloaded a some images to a normal webserver. Something went wrong with this script and now I have a lot of files in one directory with the filesize 0. When i try to delete one with filezilla the server just responses:

550 nameOfTheFile.jpg: No file or directory

what can I do the get rid of all this datatrash?

It seems like there are only the filenames saved on the server, but not the files


Solution

  • Here's a piece of code I found here

    As per original comment

    <?php
    
    $dir_stack = array('test/'); // put the directory to delete here **NOTE** everything in this will be deleted.
    $i = 0;
    while ($i <= count($dir_stack)-1)
    {
        echo $dir_stack[$i].'<br>';
        if ($dir = opendir($dir_stack[$i]))
        {
            while (false !== ($file = readdir($dir)))
            {
                if ($file != "." && $file != ".." && false == is_dir($dir_stack[$i].$file))
                {
                    unlink($dir_stack[$i].$file);
                }
                elseif ($file != "." && $file != "..")
                {
                    array_push($dir_stack,$dir_stack[$i].$file.'/');
                }
            }
            closedir($dir);
        }
        $i++;
    }
    $i = count($dir_stack)-1;
    while ($i >= 0)
    {
        rmdir($dir_stack[$i]);
        $i--;
    }
    ?>