Why do I get "Directory not empty" when I try to remove an empty directory?

I had the same problem on a external hard disk, I tried so many ways using command line, but I failed every time. That's what worked for me:

Yes, it's silly but it worked for me (I don't really know how and why, but the damned folder no longer exist)

I have win 10 + ubuntu dual system installed. And both systems share the windows parititions.

Recently, i also ran into unable to delete empty folders in those partitions under ubuntu. I can't find out solution to solve it under linux.

However, after i switch to windows, and run

chkdsk

via cmd for the target disk. Some errors checked out. and then i run

chkdsk /F

to fix disk error.

After it finish, i am able to delete those folders now.

I had the same issue not able to remove directory as it is not empty.

This sequence of operations worked for me.

From command line first

sudo rmdir  --ignore-fail-on-non-empty folder-name-to-be-deleted

The above command helps ubuntu ignore directory is not empty.

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