F8: Delete

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Select the files and/or directories you want to delete, then press F8.

After confirmation, the files are deleted. The process can be interrupted at any time with the Cancel dialog. For each non-empty directory, an additional dialog box will ask for confirmation. Warning: All files AND DIRECTORIES in that directory will be deleted. You could use Microsoft Undelete to recover those files (only on Windows 3.1(1)).

On Windows 95/98/NT, the files are automatically moved to the 'Recycle Bin'. You can double click the Recycle Bin on the Desktop to restore these files or to remove them completely. You can also choose in Recycle Bin how much space the deleted files can take, and also if you don't want to use Recycle Bin at all. If you want to delete files without moving them to recycle bin, you can hold down the SHIFT key while pressing F8 or DEL. You can disable the use of Recycle Bin in Windows Commander by making a change to Wincmd.ini, key UseTrash.

If the source directory shows the contents of an archive, the corresponding packer is started to delete the files. The files are deleted directly without moving them to Recycle Bin.

In the 32-bit version, the delete operation can be moved to the background by pressing the 'Background' button during the delete operation.