SpFolder.Delete() How it works?

Question

Hello,
I want to achieve rather simple thing. At timer job, I want to delete folder in Document library if it exists.
So part of code that handles it is like, which is simple
Dim folderDestAs As SPFolder = Web.GetFolder(FolderDestURL)                           
folderDestAs.Delete()
What I would like to learn is what will happen if at the same moment Delete action is being called, someone is in download progress of some file inside this folder?
So far I know, Delete wont happen if some file is checked out or being edited, but downloading scenario is unknown to me.
If downloading a file inside a folder I want to delete will prevent deleting, what is then recommended way to delete folder? Is it using some sort of while loop with Thread.Sleep or something else?
Thank you in advance
Milos

Answer 1

Try below:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sharepoint/en-US/52c64dd6-6e4b-4369-af10-38e29bc14a85/force-to-delete-a-spfolder-contains-some-checkout-files
SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges(delegate()
using (SPSite site = new SPSite("http://test/sites/dev/"))
using (SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb())
web.AllowUnsafeUpdates = true;
SPDocumentLibrary docs = (SPDocumentLibrary)web.Lists["Library1"];
foreach (SPFile file in docs.RootFolder.Files)
if (file.CheckOutType == SPFile.SPCheckOutType.Online)
Console.WriteLine(file.Name);
file.CheckIn("Comment");
web.AllowUnsafeUpdates = false;
he differents is I'm not using CheckedOutFiles. Using CheckedOutFiles  doesnt return you all checked
out items, only new items that have not been checked in.
you can read more about it here http://paddyt.blogspot.com/2012/05/spdocuementlibrarycheckedoutfiles.html
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