fs.watch on windows prevents directory being deleted cleanly

[xsq007]

• Version: 6.5.0
• Platform: Windows 10 (64-bit)
• Subsystem: filesystem

I use fs.watch to build a tool to watch file changes.
Now there is a large directory which contains hundreds of subdirectories and files.
When trying to remove this directory with Shift+Delete keys, I found only some subdirectories and files had been removed.
Need to fully clean the directory with Shift+Delete key many times.
It is not good to clean large directory in such a way.

Someone told me it is related with file locking mechanism in Windows, but not know the detail.
Wondering if there is any way to avoid such issue, i.e. clean the large directory watched by fs.watch with only one Shift+Delete keys.

Any suggestions and clues are appreciated. Thanks.

[tonydearaujo]

I use rimraf to delete large files on Windows

npm install rimraf –g
rimraf directory-name

[xsq007]

@tonydearaujo thanks.
However, the tool is mainly for Windows users.
They may use Shift+Delete keys to remove files and directories.

[bzoz]

The same issue in libuv (libuv/libuv#1118) was closed, so I'll close this one too. You are welcomed to reopen the issue if you still have this problem and you can provide some more info.