Richard,
Most excellent on both scripts. I tried both and they both give the access is denied error for the files. As I said when I manually go to the directories in Windows and delete the files I can delete them successfully. To answer your questions...

1. Are the files local to the server or on a share? The files are local to the server.

Are they in use? I thought of that and made sure they are/were not.

3. Which version of the code are you trying, Mart's or my latest one posted above that enumerates and removes the files individually? I tried both.

Syn
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