Hi, Thank you for your reply. I guess deleting the directory would be OK as long as I know where the directory is. I mistyped /schemas/... into /schema/.... And I can not find it in my ~/.gconf directory, and neither in /root/.gconf. Where should I look now? Thank you for your kind attention. Best Regards, On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 12:24 AM, Steven <steven.young.1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, ive never used gconf but can't you just use rm? > (sudo rm -r /path/to/directory) > > [*WARNING NEVER USE RM IN THE / DIRECTORY WITHOUT EXTREME CAUTION*] > > On Fri, 2010-10-29 at 14:18 +0800, Auguste Pop wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I created a wrong directory for my own application in gconf by a typo. >> When I try to remove it by gconf_engine_remove_dir, I got the GError >> stating: "Failed: Remove directory operation is no longer supported, >> just remove all the values in the directory." >> >> Should I reinstall the whole system to get rid of the directory? >> Living with it is simply not an option Âfor me. Any suggestions? >> >> Best Regards, >> _______________________________________________ >> gnome-list mailing list >> gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list > > _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list