Delete empty directory from Jupyter notebook error

Question

I am trying to delete an empty directory in Jupyter notebook. When I select the folder and click Delete, an error message pops up saying: 'A directory must be empty before being deleted.'

There are no files or folders in the directory and it is empty.

Any advice on how to delete it?

Thank you!

Solution

Usually, Jupyter itself creates a hidden .ipynb_checkpoints folder within the directory when you inspect it. You can check its existence (or any other hidden file/folders) in the directory using ls -a in a terminal that has a current working directory as the corresponding folder.

Comments

[John Gordon]

Are you sure the directory is empty? It doesn't contain any hidden files/directories, i.e. something like .pycache?

[Moshee]

Please can you tell me how I can check that. Jupyter notebook is currently running on localhost. When I look into the folder it doesn't contain any files.

[Moshee]

Thank you. It is creating the checkpoint folder. However it is not being deleted when I try to delete it.

[Farzad Vertigo]

In terminal do rm -rf .ipynb_checkpoints. note that upon revisiting the parent directory from the web UI, it might be recreated.

[Moshee]

Thank you. I was able to delete the folder.