Evan Platt wrote: > ... I have the following directories that won't delete (all under > \Cygwin): My guess is that it's a Windows NTFS permissions issue. Assuming you want to blow away the entire C:\cygwin tree and start again fresh: log on as Administrator, take ownership recursively of the entire tree, and reset permissions recursively of the entire tree. You then should be able to delete it. HTH, David -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/