How to delete wordpress themes folders from Dreamhost

Update:
In case you upgraded to Wordpress 2.1.2 on Dreamhost, and you got many domain.tld.old folders on your account, wasting space and wasting your account overview on ftp,
log on to your shell and do a quick dir to check on the domains, then do a rm -r domain.tld.old
and your specified backup will be deleted. See below what it looked like for me*

It occured to me that I wasn’t able to delete all folders from my site’s wordpress theme directory,
for some reasons individual theme folders would remain there and the ftp client would output:
“No such directory”, or “Directory not empty”, even though I ordered the ftp to delete the folders.

Here is how to get things done the brutal way using your shell account:

Login to your shell account, use bash:
cd to your domain in question and your wordpress theme folder using
cd wp-content
try “rm -r themes”,
in case it doesnt work,
go to the themes folder by typing “cd themes”,
do a quick “dir” to see which themes are still there.

you can delete individual files using “rm filename.ext”,
you should be able to delete things either one by one, or once at a time using the commands mentioned above.

*

Linux clamato 2.4.32-grsec+f6b+gr217+nfs+a32+fuse23+tg+++opt+c8+gr2b-v6.194 #1 S
MP Tue Jun 6 15:52:09 PDT 2006 i686 GNU/Linux
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[clamato]$ dir
CameronDiazZone.com          favoloso.info       pizza.qpoz.com
CameronDiazZone.com.old      favoloso.info.old   qpoz.com
Maildir                      fontys.qpoz.com     qpoz.com.old
VICTORIABECKHAMZONE.COM      get.h4x3d.com       static01.h4x3d.com
VICTORIABECKHAMZONE.COM.old  h4x3d.com           static01.heidiklumzone.com
blackscreenday.com           h4x3d.com.old       static01.j-e-z.de
blackscreenday.com.old       heidiklumzone.com   static02.h4x3d.com
d.qpoz.com                   idefics.klewes.com  static02.heidiklumzone.com
d.qpoz.com.old               j-e-z.de            static03.h4x3d.com
dar-lin.de                   j-e-z.de.old        static04.h4x3d.com
dar-lin.de.old               klewes.com          trancin.com
derdritteort.de              logs                trancin.com.old
derdritteort.de.old          mp3.trancin.com     webalizer

[clamato]$ rm -r dar-lin.de.old
[clamato]$ rm -r derdritteort.de.old
[clamato]$ rm -r qpoz.com.old
[clamato]$ rm -r trancin.com.old
[clamato]$ rm -r h4x3d.com.old
[clamato]$ rm -r d.qpoz.com.old
[clamato]$ rm -r favoloso.info.old
[clamato]$ rm -r j-e-z.de.old
[clamato]$ rm -r CameronDiazZone.com.old
[clamato]$ rm -r VICTORIABECKHAMZONE.COM.old
[clamato]$ rm -r blackscreenday.com.old

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