Error deleting a directory in WinSCP, (directory not empty)

Every time I want to delete a directory which have other directory called node_modules or is node_modules it says error deleting, directory not empty but when I get in the directory this is empty, some help please?

Please attach a full session log file showing the problem (using the latest version of WinSCP). Please enter the (empty) folder, leave it, and then try to delete it.

Just wanted to mention that I had a similar problem. I also got “Directory not empty” while trying to delete a directory.

In my case, the issue was a symlink inside the directory with an invalid target. The FTP and SFTP server of my hoster (Hetzner) did not list the symlink when the client requested the content of the directory. Since WinSCP could not see the symlink within the directory, it just tried to delete the directory. However, since the directory still contained the symlink, the operation always failed.

Funnily enough, I actually created the symlink myself via SFTP. Initially, I thought that creating symlinks is not supported by the SFTP server. The file did not appear after creating it. Only a few days later, I tied to delete the directory and eventually noticed that the SFTP server created the symlink as requested, but did not support listing symlinks.

@trudwin: Thanks for sharing your findings.