Urgent! Can't delete via FTP

I published my site (which works fine locally) via. Visual Studio 2005. Because it precompiled, it told me that I needed to delete my webreferences folder, among others. However, FTP will not allow me to delete these folders, giving me the error of:

An error occured... Make sure you have permissions to access this folder
Details:
550 PayPalSvc: The directory is not empty

I have all the correct permissions as I am doing this on the admin account and have had no problems before. Please help! I need this up by tomorrow morning.

 

Did you try deleting the contents of the PayPalSvcdirectory, then the directory itself? If the correct permissions were not applied recursively (on the directory and all files/subdirectories within it) you may have to do that.

mjp
DiscountASP.NET
<SUB><SUP>http://DiscountASP.NET

 

This error is also caused by a hidden files placed inside the subdirectory. If you have or had frontpage extension installed, you will need to either use Frontpage or Visual Studio to connect and get rid of the hidden files. There are some ftp clients out there that you can configure to see hidden files. One of them is filezilla. Hidden files will typically have two dots in front of them. i.e. ..filename.txt or something to that effect. If you see those you will need to manually delete them. Only then you can delete the folder. Remember if you have not configured your ftp client to show hidden files then you will not be able to see them thus unable to delete them.