Removing an (apparently) infinitely recursive folder

Thanks to everyone for the useful advice.

Straying well into StackOverflow territory, I’ve solved the problem by knocking up this snippet of C# code. It uses the Delimon.Win32.IO library that specifically addresses issues accessing long file paths.

Just in case this can help someone else out, here’s the code – it got through the ~1600 levels of recursion I’d somehow been stuck with and took around 20 minutes to remove them all.

using System;
using Delimon.Win32.IO;

namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
    class Program
    {
        private static int level;
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            // Call the method to delete the directory structure
            RecursiveDelete(new DirectoryInfo(@"\\server\\c$\\storage\\folder1"));
        }

        // This deletes a particular folder, and recurses back to itself if it finds any subfolders
        public static void RecursiveDelete(DirectoryInfo Dir)
        {
            level++;
            Console.WriteLine("Now at level " +level);
            if (!Dir.Exists)
                return;

            // In any subdirectory ...
            foreach (var dir in Dir.GetDirectories())
            {
                // Call this method again, starting at the subdirectory
                RecursiveDelete(dir);
            }

            // Finally, delete the directory, and any files below it
            Dir.Delete(true);
            Console.WriteLine("Deleting directory at level " + level);
            level--;
        }
    }
}