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Can you clarify why the second command worked for you?
– Burgi
Commented Jun 4, 2019 at 13:29
Voting down because you didn't give any explication why the command works or what it does, such as deletes the directory, subdirectories, and files.
– Winter Faulk
Commented Jun 4, 2019 at 14:31
This actually deletes the directory with a name of '....'. It only deletes the reference to parent directory, which this '....' directory actually is, nothing more, nothing less. I tried all of the commands mentioned in this topic, but none of them works. In my understanding, this command worked, because I had other files and directories in parent directory, so I had to use parameters that can recursively deletes all the content. Despite the command arguments, the parent directory remained untouched.
– Mateusz
Commented Jun 4, 2019 at 14:39
I got into this exact same situation somehow with Visual Studio and this command saved my bacon after hours of frustration trying to figure out what was going on.
– NPNelson
Commented Jun 15, 2019 at 11:49

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