Recommend a daily purging software

sswats · 17 Apr 2009 at 09:18

At the end of each day i would like a program to automatically totally delete any new files that have been stored on my second partition.

I would also like this program to be hidden if possible, or at least very discrete and password protected.

Thank You.

A[L]C · 17 Apr 2009 at 09:24

scheduled batch file?

bledd · 17 Apr 2009 at 09:34

will they only be in one folder? or totally random? files from what?

sswats · 17 Apr 2009 at 09:41

yes one folder.
its a temporary storage folder people use throughout the day but need it to be emptied at end of each night.

BigBadBenny · 17 Apr 2009 at 09:48

A[L]C;13898817 said:
scheduled batch file?

What he said.

bledd · 17 Apr 2009 at 10:00

rd /S /Q d:\folder
md d:\folder

that would delete it (and contents), then re-create it

sswats · 17 Apr 2009 at 10:05

perfect.

Would that delete hidden and readonly files too.
cos thats whats needed.

Thanks!

fonzee · 17 Apr 2009 at 10:06

pron at work is bad mmkay?

deadite66 · 17 Apr 2009 at 10:17

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swinnie · 17 Apr 2009 at 10:45

bledd. said:
rd /S /Q d:\folder
md d:\folder

that would delete it (and contents), then re-create it

This is what I would do.

sswats said:
perfect.

Would that delete hidden and readonly files too.
cos thats whats needed.

Thanks!

Just tried it and it works.

bledd · 17 Apr 2009 at 10:52

what i'd do...

call it 'gone.bat' or something and save it in c:\windows\system32

now to run it, start, run

gone

and it'll do it in a flash

Spooter · 17 Apr 2009 at 11:36

Or set it to run as a scheduled task each night.

sswats · 17 Apr 2009 at 12:49

Having looked at the computers and what people have been doing to them, its turned out a bit more complicated than i thought.

In short i think its better if i delete everything off a specific partition. All folders and files, and here's the tricky bit, apart from 1 file which i would like to be left on the system.
So i obviously i can't do a format. is there a way to delete everything on a partition and exclude 1 file?

thanks for the help guys.

Poolybit · 17 Apr 2009 at 12:52

sswats said:
Having looked at the computers and what people have been doing to them, its turned out a bit more complicated than i thought.

In short i think its better if i delete everything off a specific partition. All folders and files, and here's the tricky bit, apart from 1 file which i would like to be left on the system.
So i obviously i can't do a format. is there a way to delete everything on a partition and exclude 1 file?

thanks for the help guys.

You could do as above but in the batch file copy the file to a location outside of the partition, delete everything and then copy it back, deleting the copy that you made.

deadite66 · 17 Apr 2009 at 13:04

did you look at the steady state link its built for this kind of thing, a reboot and the pc is restored to how you set it up.

sswats · 17 Apr 2009 at 13:36

Its a 4gb file so will take a while to copy back and forth.
Forget it i can live without it.
but i obviously can't use the RD command on a whole partition. is there another command that can delete everything on the drive.
eg Is there a quick NTFS format in command prompt?

I do use Deep freeze, which is like steadystate, to keep the first partition in check. but the boss wants it to be deleted at the end of the day not after every reboot.

wombraider · 17 Apr 2009 at 15:12

modify the batch file to use the move command
before you delete the folder
then use a move command after you have re-created it , job done - FAST :-)