Delete Folder Contents Automatically

Hi

I'm running Win XP Pro SP2 and have a security cam recording video to a folder on a daily basis. The obvious problem is that after a few days there is very little disk space left and I need to manually delete the contents of the cam's folder.

I,ve written a simple .bat file to do the delete automatically. See below



When I run the file I get no errors but the files within the folder are not deleted.

ViRi

Ive got a similar problem. Looking for a script that can delete folders when the free disk space is below x.

Now my recorder store the files in c:\sec\07-01-01 c:\sec\07-01-02 and so on...

--moved to the Windows Scripting forum.

ViRi, remove the first line from your code.. what is the output?

Put a space between del and /s and between each attribute. Drop the extra \ too. Your script will run, but it will error out on the del command. With echo turned off you won't see this. Unfortunately, even though it doesn't complete the del command, the batch file still returns an error code of 0.

Hi

I've removed the first line and changed the second line to

del / q c:\recorded_video

and it works fine it will delete all the files it finds in c:\recorded_video

Now I overlooked the fact that my recorded video files are not actually stored in c:\recorded_video but in
c:\Documents and Settings\My Documents\ViRiPuff\recorded_video

I've tried running the same script with the new path and nothing happens no files are deleted

del / q c:\Documents and Settings\My Documents\ViRiPuff\recorded_video

ViRi




<cam.bat>
del / q c:\recorded_Video
exit
<cam.bat>

That's because your file path now contains spaces. You need to enclose it in quotes. And don't forget the *.*