Deleating My Settings Folder From User Network Drive at Log-in

[useraaron321]

Hi All,

 

I wondered if anyone knew if there's a script I could use to delete the My Settings folder at log-in which is stored on the users network location? The issue we are having is that after migrating to Vanilla we have had many students with corrupt My settings folders and it has led to many students experiencing all kinds of issues. Renaming of deleting this before any application are open works fine after windows creates the new one but of course only we can do this from accessing there area from our side.

 

I am pretty new to IT and have only some basic experience with scripts but I have been using a script to delete folders to test for myself but I don't know if its possible to direct that script to there network drive due to either permissions (As its a user with no admin rights but I didn't know if windows was smart enough to know it has had the script pushed to it from our server that has admin rights) or because I simply cant change the location to that drive).

 

I know that there could be an option of deleting all of these folders from the server but it would be good to know the answers to my question as its good knowledge to have and also we have already tried this by searching for my settings folder in the student location which populated around 1000 of these and we selected all and hit delete but still had problems.

 

Thanks in advance for anyone who can help me out.

 

Aaron

[halbaradkenafin]

A batch file containing something like Del 'Q:\My Settings' and that should do the job, maybe add in /f to force deletion.

[useraaron321]

Hey thanks for the reply I am trying Del /S /Q "N:\My Settings" but it is having no effect on the student log-in do you think this would be down to permissions?

[halbaradkenafin]

Hey thanks for the reply I am trying Del /S /Q "N:\My Settings" but it is having no effect on the student log-in do you think this would be down to permissions?

 

Possibly, might be worth trying with /f as well. What permissions do the pupils have on their own folders?