Short term share

[edie209]

I want to create a short term share, one that will be empty every Monday morning.

The reason behind this is teachers claiming they need to have an area to collect students work but want it to be deleted at the end of the week.

Well no problem there I thought I would just schedule a bat file to delete the directory on Friday nights simple. but no.

del command only deletes files not folders or at least I thought so I found a reference to /s switch that should delete folders but it won't for me.

And it seems deltree won't work with a wildcard

Anyone got another suggestion. I need the share to always remain but the contents to be deleted on a weekly basis

[CyberNerd]

what about recursively deleting files that are over 1 week old

[strawberry]

try /S

[mac_shinobi]

DEL /S C:/PATH/to/BASEDIR/*.*

obviously *.* will delete everything, best to try it on a test directory first just to ensure it works how you want it to.

[edie209]

/S doesn't seem to delete folders either

I have been trying

DEL /S/f/q C:/PATH/to/BASEDIR/*.*

and

DEL /s/f/q C:/PATH/to/BASEDIR/*.*

[mac_shinobi]

http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread61479.html

May take a lil while to load the page but hopefully that helps

[OutToLunch]

Follow up

CD "FULLPATHTODIRTOBECLEANED"
DEL *.* /Q

with

for /D %I in (*) do RMDIR "%I" /S /Q

DEL *.* will delete contents in the top level folder
The FOR will loop and remove all directories and their subdirectories.

In a batch file you'll need %%I, on the command line %I

HTH

[edie209]

Thanks OutToLunch that works