Hi, Sphinxy09

I stand by what I said earlier - Perl does not interact with the recycle bin in this fashion (indeed, I am sceptical that any application could legitimately hijack the delete function in Windows like this). The method you are using to run WinZip is basically the same as you opening a command prompt and typing wzzip -m .... If you try this now, WinZip should exhibit exactly the same behaviour as when Perl calls it.

As for a fix, you can go with either Athanasius' suggestion, or with bulk88's code (though I would suggest changing line 13 to my  $return = SHEmptyRecycleBin(0, "", 1); once you are certain it is doing what you want (the 1 tells Windows to run the command without prompting for confirmation)

In reply to Re^3: Command To Empty Recycle Bin With Perl? by SimonPratt
in thread Command To Empty Recycle Bin With Perl? by sphinxy09

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