From d030494c2128590c3f30d834ea41837c3def2e05 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: sidheshenator <sidhesh@basistech.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 15:28:11 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] sanity check added to FileUtil.deleteDir()

---
 Core/src/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/coreutils/FileUtil.java | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Core/src/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/coreutils/FileUtil.java b/Core/src/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/coreutils/FileUtil.java
index 8e8481a580..a1698f7d90 100644
--- a/Core/src/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/coreutils/FileUtil.java
+++ b/Core/src/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/coreutils/FileUtil.java
@@ -38,7 +38,10 @@ import org.openide.filesystems.FileObject;
      * @return true if the dir deleted, false otherwise
      */
     public static boolean deleteDir(File dirPath) {
-        if (dirPath.exists()) {
+        if(dirPath.isFile())
+            return false;
+        
+        if (dirPath.isDirectory() && dirPath.exists()) {
             File[] files = dirPath.listFiles();
             for (int i = 0; i < files.length; i++) {
                 if (files[i].isDirectory()) {