The door will come away from its track as you squeeze it. Once the doors are removed, there are plenty of closet door alternatives that may better appeal to your sense of style.

A: We agree that old bypass closet doors can be maddening. Occasionally we've had a door come off the overhead track and experienced a great deal of frustration getting the door back up and ...

All the guides on the interverse assume the upper hinges are spring-loaded: just depress the pin from above, slide the mechanism off the track, and swing the assembly inward/outward. Mine seem to ...

Or remove closet doors entirely and turn the area into open shelving. To give it a finished look, wallpaper the closet interior and hang tieback draperies where the doors were.