geeks, help me delete files automatically

[Shade-of-Grey]

can anyone think of a way to do this...maybe with a script or some such?

basically I have a computer set up to do nothing but host ventrilo and download TV shows using miro. Since miro doesnt automatically delete the shows it downloads unless i watch them ON miro, which i dont (i stream them to my xbox), they're just building up and i'm having to delete them automatically

my folder structure looks like this

\Miro\Lost\LostS03E14.avi , Lost S03E13.avi
\Miro\Heroes\HeroesS03E01.avi

etc etc.

Basically I want something to be able to automatically delete a file after it's been there for about a week.

[Koobazaur]

Well you can make a batch file with something like

delete path/to/your/folder/*.*

and run it manually / put in your Autostart. As for automating that, look at some online task scheduling programs (wait doesn't windows have that already?) and simply hook up the batch file to that.

[Shade-of-Grey]

yeah i could automate it with task scheduler

but i have very little idea of how to write a batch script

and i dont want to have to make a seperate one for every single shows' folder, just one for the Miro folder

[Faceman]

Google it. They are very easy to write.

[Koobazaur]

batch files are text files with dos commands in it and the extension .bat

so open notepad, put in:
delete path/to/your/folder/*.*

where the path is to the miro folder

and save as "mylittlepony.bat" and run it; it will delete everything in the miro folder

or am I not understating what you want?

edit: the command you may need is deltree since miro may have sub folders which delete won't remove. you may also need to put deltree -r path/to/bla to make it recursive. as face said, google dos delete/deltree, it's really simple

[Cheeto]

It would help to know what OS this is.

If it's Windows there's almost certainly a freebie utility out there somewhere, but failing that you could do like they say and just do up a batch file and have it run automagically with the built in scheduler.

If it's Linux/Unix you would write a bash script and have it tied to a cron job.

[Maxey]

Shift+Delete

[Lithium]

Shift+Delete

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[Burris]

Oh my god, too much Bill O'Reilly flipping out, not enough reps.

[Shade-of-Grey]

1) its windows vista

2) i tried googling it and i couldnt figure it out

3) i dont want to delete all the files, just to delete files after a certain amount of time of existance. so for instance i'd want to delete show 1 that has been there for 7 days, but not show 2 which has only been there 3 days.

[Koobazaur]

Well sounds like you need a specific utlitity for that. I can code one for you.




if you pay me.





I accept cash, credit and cock.

[Cheeto]

Well sounds like you need a specific utlitity for that. I can code one for you.

if you pay me.

I accept cash, credit and cock.
All in the same slot?

[Shade-of-Grey]

i found this:



Dim i, fso, f, f1, sf, BasePath, CalcResult, fNameArray()
BasePath = "D:\Reports"
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set f = fso.GetFolder(BasePath)
Set sf = f.SubFolders
For Each f1 in sf
CalcResult = DateDiff("d",f1.DateCreated,Now)
if CalcResult > 2 then
ReDim preserve fNameArray(i)
fNameArray(i) = f1.Name
i = i + 1
end if
Next

For Each fName in fNameArray
FSO.DeleteFolder(BasePath & "\" & fName)
Next

it doesnt look like it would be exactly what i'm looking for, but does anyone know how to alter this so it is?