Cant delete .minecraft folder for Minecraft

I just downloaded Minecraft. When I pushed play, it finished, but then it loaded again. So I tried to delete the .minecraft folder, but it said the file is open in another program.

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Best Answer

Restart your computer. This should stop the process that is using the .minecraft folder so you can delete it.

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Is it safe to delete the .minecraft folder?

Deleting this folder will NOT delete anything you have on the server, since the server files are not located in your . minecraft folder, they will be located at where the server is being hosted.

How do I completely uninstall Minecraft?

Uninstalling the Old Minecraft Unified Launcher

Click the start menu in Windows (windows icon in the bottom left)

Type in \u201cAdd or remove programs\u201d and click the top entry.

Search for \u201cMinecraft Launcher\u201d. ...

Click the three dots shown to the left of the \u201cMinecraft Launcher\u201d title and select 'Uninstall'.

How do I delete a Minecraft jar file?

You must open minecraft. jar in a program which can edit . zip files (such as 7-zip), then delete the META-INF folder as you would anything else. This should not require administrator privileges, as minecraft.

Why can't i delete my .minecraft folder.

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Answer 2

Close completely every minecraft related program, then retry. You can't delete something if its data is being used by something else.

Answer 3

Open an elevated cmd (run as administrator)
In the command prompt, type list volume and press Enter.

This will let you see what the drive letter is for the drive that you want to delete the folder in since it may not always be the same drive letter that it is in Windows.
After making note of the drive letter, type exit and press Enter.
In the command prompt, type the command below and press Enter.
```
RD /S /Q "Full Path of Folder"
```
^{Substitute Full Path of Folder within quotes below with your folder's full path within quotes instead.}

For example, if I wanted to delete a folder named Folder on my desktop, I would type this command below.
```
RD /S /Q "C:\Users\UserName\Desktop\Folder"
```
The folder should now be deleted. Close the command prompt.

If you used a command prompt at boot, then also close the System Recovery Options window and restart the computer.

Answer 4

Assuming you're on Windows, go to the command prompt (search cmd in the start menu) and then run the command:

taskkill /im javaw.exe

If it says "terminated process" then you're done. Go back and try to delete it, it should let you. However if it says it failed, then run:

taskkill /im javaw.exe /f

This will force quit Minecraft and there is no way it can fail. Now go to the folder and delete it.

Answer 5

I use this software to delete these kinda "Hard-to-Delete" files.

Just right click on the file and select its option. You can then either kill the process using it, or move the file, or have it deleted.

Hope this helps!

Answer 6

Click on the .minecraft folder, then Shift+Del when it says that the program is running, ignore all of those. After that, most of the files will be deleted. Shut down your computer, then go back to all those files and delete the remaining files in .minecraft. Then Minecraft should be fully deleted.

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