Empty directory not getting deleted in external harddisk

[Colin Law]

On 25 October 2011 02:19, Linux Tyro <ubuntu.bkn at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There has occurred an strange problem and I am encountering this problem for
> the first time. In my external hard-disk which when I connect in Ubuntu a
> folder is not getting deleted at all. Again I plug in usb hard disk and find
> that some few file(s) (namely 'databases' get created inside that directory
> and these all I delete but finally the main empty directory still exists and
> I don't know how it got created.
>
> how could it be permanently deleted?

Can you give us the names of the directories and files please?

Colin