Hi, I'm unable to delete a site from a site collection. If I attempt to delete the site from the site settings -> delete this site link, I receive the error message: Cannot remove folder "CR". However if I attempt to delete the site from SiteManager.aspx, it also fails but provides this additional information from the log: Final Status: Operation to Delete '/sites/BD/CR' Failed. Error: <error><message>Cannot remove folder &quot;CR&quot;.</message><full>Microsoft.SharePoint.SPException: Cannot remove folder &quot;CR&quot;. ---&gt; System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x81070204): Cannot remove folder &quot;CR&quot;. at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequestInternalClass.DeleteWeb(String bstrUrl) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequest.DeleteWeb(String bstrUrl) --- End of inner exception stack trace --- at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequest.DeleteWeb(String bstrUrl) at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPWeb.Delete() at Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Internal.WebControls.DeleteRecursive.DeleteOp(ObjectSerializer objser) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Internal.WebControls.SmtLongRunningJob.ApplyPostOrder(NodeOperator op, ObjectSerializer objser, UInt32&amp; numaffected) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Internal.WebControls.DeleteRecursive.DoWork()</full><customData>Operation to Delete &#39;/sites/BD/CR&#39; Failed</customData></error> Any help will be appreciated...

Either /sites/BD/CR is a sub site of /sites/BD or it's a folders that was created using SharePoint Designer and you don't have permissions to it. If it's a sub site, delete the sub site before attempting to delete the parent site. If it's a folder, crack open the site with SPD and try to remove the folder from there before deleting the site. I trust that answers your question... Thanks C http://www.cjvandyk.com/blog

Okay so sites/BD is a site collection that has CR as a subsite. CR doesn't have any subsites of it's own any more (it used to). Unfortunately opening sites/BD in SPD and trying to delete the CR site from there produced the same error message. Update: just discovered that the DB server is running out of disk space. I'll post another comment later, but I'm pretty certain that's the cause. (very happy this is in a test environment) Thanks Cornelius!

It was due to the DB Server running out of disk space.

Thanks a lot Carl for this post, saved me a lot of troubleshooting time!! I got the exact same error, and my server had also ran out of space. For some reason the log files were taking over 18GB of memory.. sylvain.