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Windows has the Shell Helper API that can help you with that, All you need to do is calling 'PathAppend()' () and add a &quot;..&quot; to go up one direectory, e.g. like 
 

<pre><code class="code-10 nolinks" id="code-20-39897888-1">#include &lt;windows.h&gt;
#include &lt;iostream&gt;
#include &quot;Shlwapi.h&quot;
#include &lt;tchar.h&gt;

#pragma comment(lib,&quot;shlwapi.lib&quot;)

using namespace std;

void main( void )
{

 TCHAR acOrig[MAX_PATH] = _T(&quot;C:\\ProrgamData\\MyFolder\\Logs\\&quot;);

 cout &lt;&lt; acOrig &lt;&lt; endl;

 PathAppend(acOrig,_T(&quot;..&quot;)); // go up one directory

 cout &lt;&lt; acOrig &lt;&lt; endl;
}

 
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BTW, which version is Visua C++ are you using? That's because the handling of CStrings differs slightly between them, so in order to show you how to use them with the above, I have to ask...
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You can use SHFileOperation() to remove a directory. Search msdn for it's supported OS. 
 
code: 
 
// @param: dir - Fully qualified name of the directory being &nbsp; deleted, &nbsp; without trailing //backslash 
 
int silently_remove_directory(LPCTSTR dir) { 
&nbsp; 
int len = strlen(dir) + 2; // required to set 2 nulls at end of argument to SHFileOperation. 
&nbsp; char* tempdir = (char*) malloc(len); 
&nbsp; memset(tempdir,0,len); 
&nbsp; strcpy(tempdir,dir); 
 
&nbsp; SHFILEOPSTRUCT file_op = { 
&nbsp; &nbsp; NULL, 
&nbsp; &nbsp; FO_DELETE, 
&nbsp; &nbsp; tempdir, 
&nbsp; &nbsp; &quot;&quot;, 
&nbsp; &nbsp; FOF_NOCONFIRMATION | 
&nbsp; &nbsp; FOF_NOERRORUI | 
&nbsp; &nbsp; FOF_SILENT, 
&nbsp; &nbsp; false, 
&nbsp; &nbsp; 0, 
&nbsp; &nbsp; &quot;&quot;&nbsp;}; 
&nbsp; int ret = SHFileOperation(&amp;file_op); 
&nbsp; free(tempdir); 
&nbsp; return ret; // returns 0 on success, non zero on failure. 
}
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Don't you think that deleting an entire directory is a bit overdoing it when it just should be removed from a string? ;o)
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This works very well for me. Many thanks.
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Hello, 
I have a Cstring with file path information. As sample: C:\ProrgamData\MyFolder\Logs\ 
How can I remove the last folder &quot;Logs&quot; from this path?
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Hello,
I have a Cstring with file path information. As sample: C:\ProrgamData\MyFolder\Logs\
How can I remove the last folder "Logs" from this path?

remove last folder from path

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