Ah ha! I just did this. You have 2 choices. In either/both, I had to white-knuckle it, like going up a mountain road with no guard rail and afraid your car will end up in a ravine. But you still must make the trip. Route 1 Google Rootsweb+Freepages+File Manager Log in Look at what you have. You can delete by whole directory, or piece by piece ONE at a time. Choose radio button. Say Prayer. =--- There is NO backup except your computer. Move down... Delete Directory (or Delete File) Confirm. Boom--- that part is gone. Route 2 Download / use Filezilla On the RIGHT side is the live site. Go to BOTTOM box on the RIGHT SIDE (Do NOT touch the left side-- that is your computer side! and the top is the RW main folders, do NOT delete anything in the TOP RIGHT box with the _before it !). Highlight first item...hold down shift...click last item... This is permanent--- NO backup except on your computer!. Right Mouse Button-- menu--- (say prayer)...choose Delete. Confirm (preferably with your eyes wide open, though you'll squeeze then tight while 'praying') Zippity-do-da, all gone. EASY, right?! Except for sweaty palms, headache, and multiple chest pains during the process - LOL Warning -- It will look very, very empty there. You will pray you did the right thing as your heart races. Cure for sweating, headache, and chest pains -- immediately upload all of your new site. Run Xenu link checker. It is the 'doctor'. It will tell you that your site IS alive. Your chest pains will stop immediately. Headaches continue when you spot errors you made (Xenu sees all). Take two tylenol and just keep working on the errors. LOL Judy
I forgot to say, you can also delete by single folder or file using Filezilla. Whether by Freepages File Manager or Filezilla, deleting a site (one item at a time or completely with Filezilla) is still nearly traumatic even if it must be done. And, Google changed how it indexes/crawls sites. If you removed / changed a filename, before the webmaster could send Google a delete-this-old-page request. However, now, Google says not to notify them; the 404s will eventually fall out of their indexing. And, you can only request a re-indexing 10 times in a month. I used 3 with just re-uploading the new site and I'm finding it impatiently difficult to ignore my own 404s. After running Xenu and fixing errors, I'll request another crawl in a month or so. Judy