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That is not the point

The point is

DOSadnie wrote: ↑

15 Jul 2023 04:48

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this is the only forum out of dozens I am active on where such ill behavior is instituted

And that by changing this it would become more

DOSadnie wrote: ↑

15 Jul 2023 04:48

user friendly
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As the initial question had been answered, I have just created a separate topic for the newer one: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=10858

A script like this
does delete files in that folder - but unfortunately without a fail-safe in form of sending them the Recycle Bin

So how can I delete files not so permanently?

[And no: I do not want to use a post-mistake workaround of using recovery tools]

I cannot delete it as it has sub-folders that I need to keep

If someone is not logged in but click Post Reply button, then that someone instead of being automatically redirected to the login page [https://www.dostips.com/forum/ucp.php?mode=login] gets a page that says General Error SQL ERROR [ mysqli ] Table './dostips_forum/phpbb_qa_confirm' is marked as cra...

[...] Hint, there is nothing wrong with the filename or location. And so it seems Because now what I got was this X:\>( cd /D P: del /AH /S /Q ~$*.xlsm ) Could Not Find P:\~$*.xlsm Y:\>( cd /D W: del /AH /S /Q ~$*.xlsm ) Deleted file - Y:\TEST2\~$some test file.xlsm Z:\>( /D del /AH /S /Q ~$*.xlsm ...

What has worked for me [at lest in 3 out of 4 BAT file with multiple commands] was adding of
at the end of almost each command; e.g.

As for using
in each case just one at the very beginning of whole script is sufficient

As I had feared, the culprit is not what I am looking for but some other item Because now this @echo off for /F "skip=1" %%D in ('wmic logicaldisk get caption') do ( cd /D %%D dir /AH /S "~$*.xlsm" del /AH /S /Q ~$*.xlsm ) pause [with the exact same test locations and files as before] produces this ...

The above works, so thank you very much And the lines Set-Location -Path 'C:\'; ^ and %EndPowershell% can be removed - and so the final code can look like this powershell.exe ^ $directories = @( ^ 'C:\Users\YOUR-USER-NAME\AppData\Roaming\ASCOMP Software\BackUp Maker\logs' ^ ); ^ foreach ($directory ...

This script @echo off for /F "skip=1" %%D in ('wmic logicaldisk get caption') do ( cd /D %%D del /AH /S /Q ~$*.xlsm ) pause goes through every drive [except the system one] and deletes ~$WHATEVER THE REST OF NAME.XLSM files . However it can produce an outcome like this Could Not Find X:\~$*.xlsm Del...

I have this code set "THIS-WILL-BE-DELETED=C:\Users\YOUR-USER-NAME\AppData\Roaming\ASCOMP Software\BackUp Maker" del /q "%THIS-WILL-BE-DELETED%\*.*" dir "%THIS-WILL-BE-DELETED%" 1>NUL 2>&1 if errorlevel 1 ( echo Files were deleted at echo. echo C:\Users\YOUR-USER-NAME\AppData\Roaming\ASCOMP Software...

Use the standard line-continuation of cmd using a caret at the end of the line. The following will probably work (untested): [...] It did not I tried adjusting it myself and also failed You can review extensive examples of this method at this thread . Then I feed ChatGPT the code from this https://...

I had this PS1 script $directories = @( "C:\Users\YOUR-USER-NAME\AppData\Roaming\ASCOMP Software\BackUp Maker\logs" ) foreach ($directory in $directories) { Set-Location -Path $directory Get-ChildItem -Filter "*.log~" | Where-Object { $_.Attributes -band [System.IO.FileAttributes]::Archive } | Remov...

Now that is a neat workaround - but also time consuming, the more elements from a single line a user wants to comment on

Thank you both for you help

In other words, this script needs to be reworked so that:

1] it list volumes

2] it deletes [specified] files in Recycle Bins on those volumes

3] it deletes folders in Recycle Bins also on those volumes