diff --git a/components/camel-test/camel-test-junit5/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/test/junit5/TestSupport.java b/components/camel-test/camel-test-junit5/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/test/junit5/TestSupport.java
index 5d7375f9b9470..01be80cdbfc62 100644
--- a/components/camel-test/camel-test-junit5/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/test/junit5/TestSupport.java
+++ b/components/camel-test/camel-test-junit5/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/test/junit5/TestSupport.java
@@ -485,8 +485,9 @@ public static void recursivelyDeleteDirectory(File file) {
                 recursivelyDeleteDirectory(child);
             }
         }
-        boolean success = file.delete();
-        if (!success) {
+        try {
+            Files.delete(file.toPath());
+        } catch (IOException e) {
             LOG.warn("Deletion of file: {} failed", file.getAbsolutePath());
         }
     }