Deleting only certain files from specified location and its sub-folders [SOLVED]

[DOSadnie]

I want to automatically get rid of e.g. temporary files of Excel which sometimes are left over after its crash. Such file can look like this

~$OriginalNameOfMyFile.xlsm

Lets say they are in a folder like

S:\Data

and its sub-folders and their sub-folders


I tried using

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forfiles /s /m "~$*.xlsm" /c "cmd /c del @path" /p "S:\Data"

and

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for /r "S:\Data" %x in (~$*.xlsm) do del "%x"

and some variants of them but I was not able to write a working one


Was it because such temporary files have the hidden attribute applied to them?

[bxx]

Use del /A to delete hidden files, like

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del /A *.xlsm

[DOSadnie]

This seems to work

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cd /D S:\Data
del /AH *.xlsm

So thank you for your help


The only caveat is that there is no fail-safe in form of files going to the Recycle Bin, as they are just deleted permanently

[miskox]

Maybe you add /s to delete if required.

Saso

[DOSadnie]

Add for gaining that fail-safe of sending files to the Recycle Bin?

If yes- then it does not work

[DOSadnie]

As the initial question had been answered, I have just created a separate topic for the newer one: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=10858