Deleting files with sending them to Recycle Bin [SOLVED]

[DOSadnie]

A script like this

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del /q C:\Test

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]

[npocmaka_]

try this: https://github.com/npocmaka/batch.scrip ... leteJS.bat

[koko]

There's a CLI program called binit that sends things to the recycle bin. In my testing it handled all the Unicode characters I tried, unlike another program (CmdUtils) that I'd seen suggested elsewhere. Not open source fwiw. The author posted their motivation for creating it on Stack Overflow.

[DOSadnie]

try this: https://github.com/npocmaka/batch.scrip ... leteJS.bat

What does the present in it

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"Usage (prints with default printer a file if possible)"

suppose to have anything to do with deletion of items and Recycle Bin?

There's a CLI program called binit that sends things to the recycle bin
[...]

OK

But how can I effectively use Binit also outside of a BAT script, i.e. incorporate it to a daily and on the spot usage?

I would have to write and always be running e.g. AHK script that would replace pressing of Delete key in every program of mine that happens to have file handling abilities with the usage of this Binit; plus I would need to add a fail-safe question for it. And then I would also need to add Binit [also with a fail-safe step] to my right click menu, right?

[DOSadnie]

OK

But how how can I effectively use Binit also outside of a BAT script
[...]

Hold your horses


If I will execute a BAT like this

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cd "C:\My Portables\Binit\"
start "" /b Binit.exe "M:\Music\*.WAV"

then it will delete files only from the Music folder - and the PDF help file for Binit says nothing about ability to include subfolders

Thus it seems this is useful only for a very specified job, like a temp file of some sort or something like that run e.g. right after a startup of Windows or closure of some program

[koko]

But how can I effectively use Binit also outside of a BAT script, i.e. incorporate it to a daily and on the spot usage?

You'd use it like any CLI program. I mean, that's what you're doing in the OP.

I would have to write and always be running e.g. AHK script that would replace pressing of Delete key in every program of mine that happens to have file handling abilities with the usage of this Binit; plus I would need to add a fail-safe question for it. And then I would also need to add Binit [also with a fail-safe step] to my right click menu, right?

? Your OP describes a CLI usage but now you're wanting to replace the native Windows functionality of the delete key and context menu... with a program that does the same thing (ie: both send files to the Recycle Bin)? I don't understand.

Anyway, I've used it in a script before and it's useful.

Edit: also if you want a program to be accessible from any directory, just by typing the program's name (eg: binit), you'll have to add the program to a directory in the Windows PATH environment variable. This part is kind of assumed knowledge when discussing CLI programs.

[npocmaka_]

try this: https://github.com/npocmaka/batch.scrip ... leteJS.bat

What does the present in it

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"Usage (prints with default printer a file if possible)"

suppose to have anything to do with deletion of items and Recycle Bin?

There's a CLI program called binit that sends things to the recycle bin
[...]

OK

But how can I effectively use Binit also outside of a BAT script, i.e. incorporate it to a daily and on the spot usage?

I would have to write and always be running e.g. AHK script that would replace pressing of Delete key in every program of mine that happens to have file handling abilities with the usage of this Binit; plus I would need to add a fail-safe question for it. And then I would also need to add Binit [also with a fail-safe step] to my right click menu, right?

Haha. THis is something that I've copied from another script. Thanks. I'll update it. To use it you need just to pass a file or folder location as an argument:

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call deleteJs.bat c:\myfolder\myFile.txt

[Batcher]

test-1.bat

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@echo off
set "MyFile=C:\Test\1.txt"
mshta "javascript:new ActiveXObject('Shell.Application').NameSpace(10).CopyHere('%MyFile:\=\\%');close()"

[DOSadnie]

I tested this java script out and it works. Unfortunately I have failed at such basic reworking of it as applying it to

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*.WAV

As for the question of

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replace the native Windows functionality of the delete key and context menu... with a program that does the same thing (ie: both send files to the Recycle Bin)? I don't understand.
[...]

I also having read carefully more than once what I had written do not understand what was it that I was after back then

It is just another case of me attempting to do too many tweaks with scripts at the same time and writing about them on various forums


However I have come up with apparently A-OK working solution with this PS1 script:

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$LIST_OF_FOLDERS_TO_APPLY_THIS_SCRIPT = @(
    "M:\Music\",
    "X:\Music New\",
    "Z:\Backups\"
)

$EXTENSION_OF_FILES_TO_REMOVE = "*.WAV"

function DELETE-FILES($FOLDER) {
    $THIS_WILL_BE_REMOVED = Get-ChildItem -Path $FOLDER -Filter $EXTENSION_OF_FILES_TO_REMOVE -File -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

    foreach ($file in $THIS_WILL_BE_REMOVED) {
        $shell = New-Object -ComObject Shell.Application
        $shell.Namespace(10).MoveHere($file.FullName)
    }

    $ALL_SUBFOLDERS = Get-ChildItem -Path $FOLDER -Directory -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
    foreach ($EACH_SUBFOLDER in $ALL_SUBFOLDERS) {
        DELETE-FILES $EACH_SUBFOLDER.FullName
    }
}

foreach ($FOLDER_PATH in $LIST_OF_FOLDERS_TO_APPLY_THIS_SCRIPT_TO) {
    DELETE-FILES $FOLDER_PATH
}

And so for now all I will not be pursuing usage of other methods - but nevertheless I will keep a link to this discussion and its offline
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And thank you all for your input so far