Delete files with the ability to undo or recycle

Windows will not let the user or your program undo file delete operations that your perform using low-level functions such as DeleteFile() from your program. Following function, however, will delete a file with the ability to undo (recycle) by sending the file to the "Recycle Bin."

uses ShellAPI; function DeleteFileWithUndo( sFileName : string ) : boolean; var fos : TSHFileOpStruct; begin FillChar( fos, SizeOf( fos ), 0 ); with fos do begin wFunc := FO_DELETE; pFrom := PChar( sFileName ); fFlags := FOF_ALLOWUNDO or FOF_NOCONFIRMATION or FOF_SILENT; end; Result := ( 0 = ShFileOperation( fos ) ); end;

To delete a file, simply pass the file name to DeleteFileWithUndo() and it will return True if the operation was successful.