Delete All Files and Folders Inside a Directory?

[Zoom7000]

The school has a Functional Skills exam coming up and I need to delete the contents of the exam users folders. I have tried the following command but it only deletes files and not folders. Is there anyway I can force it to delete everything?

 

DEL /Q /S "E:\Users\ExamUsers\Exam51\*.*"
DEL /Q /S "E:\Users\ExamUsers\Exam52\*.*"
DEL /Q /S "E:\Users\ExamUsers\Exam53\*.*"

Etc..

 

I don't want to delete the top level folder (i.e. Exam51, 52 etc) just empty out the contents.

[FN-GM]

Just a quick and dirty way you could use robocopy

 

robocopy "source" "E:\Users\ExamUsers\Exam51" /MIR

robocopy "source" "E:\Users\ExamUsers\Exam52" /MIR

 

Make the source folder empty.

 

We use this for sending files to the functional skills home areas, so might be handy for that.

[Steve21]

Del only does files. Think it's RD for folders?

 

e.g. RD /S /Q "path"

 

Steve

[Zoom7000]

Just a quick and dirty way you could use robocopy

 

robocopy "source" "E:\Users\ExamUsers\Exam51" /MIR

robocopy "source" "E:\Users\ExamUsers\Exam52" /MIR

 

Make the source folder empty.

 

We use this for sending files to the functional skills home areas, so might be handy for that.

 

Thanks, I will try that!

 

Del only does files. Think it's RD for folders?

 

e.g. RD /S /Q "path"

 

Steve

 

I've tried RD, but it removes the root folder too! Don't want that!

[Zoom7000]

Thanks FN-GM. That worked perfectly!