Better way to delete files?

[The_KiD]

I have about 600 directories to delete, each with an unspecified amount of subdirectories.

Selecting them all then shift+del takes an absolute age to bring up the "deleting blah" prompt.

Then somewhere in there is a file it cannot delete, so instead of continuing past that file the whole thing has to start again.

I have been at this for ******* hours!!!! please tell me there is a better way, some untility that will delete and wont just stop if it finds one file it doesnt like?

 

[bledd]

are they all in the same subfolder or in different locations?

rd /s /q "c:\path"

that will remove directories and all subfolders and files, without prompt and will skip things that it doesn't have permission to do or that are locked




dir /b > files.txt

do that in a folder to get all the folder and file names (of that directory you're running it from) to list them in a file called files.txt, copy this into excel and you can quickly make a massive batch file but filling the column a with "rd /s /q" then copy all back to notepad and do a find and replace for the 'tab' function, there's one in here for you... " " replace it with a space and save as .bat

i don't need to tell you this mate, but for others -be careful when using rd!


add me to msn if you want a better explanation

 

[The_KiD]

Now there's a blast from the past Bledd

the RD command, I had forgotten it even existed.

Thanks for prompting me and it works like a charm