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Okay, so I wanted to do a "clean" reinstall of drupal and civicrm. I deleted all the drupal files, and all the civicvrm files... Only to find that certain files (listed below) keep recreating themselves! Despite having set the permissions to 777 they wont allow me to delete or edit them - giving me the error of not having the permissions to do so. How can I get rid of these files?

Files:
.sites/default/civicrm.settings.php
.sites/default/default.settings.php
.sites/default/settings.php
.sites/default/files/ (the "files" folder wont delete either despite not having anything in it)


Any help would be nice...

1. most likely the permissions are not 777 and the files are owned by apache

2. unless you have sudo access (highly unlikely on shared host), its a bit hard to get rid of the files. Your easiest bet is to write and execute a simple php script to delete those files and directories

lobo

Hmm, I made sure that I had the permissions set to 777, since that was the first most likely resolution to the problem. But as noted in the earlier post even after I had checked that I couldn't delete the files.

Well, I'm not very familiar with php scripts, much less one that could get rid of those files... Any advice or pointers as to where I could go to find this out?

As a side note, I tried asking the host before to delete the files for me since I couldn't... The person I got said "no" because "it's a drupal file, and we don't support drupal" .. then when I asked to get someone else to help me they then said no because "there is a script that re-writes the files once deleted" ....

Any advice would be much appreciated 

Thanks!


[Edit] I solved the problem! I appreciate your help! [/Edit]