why can't windows just move all the files it can?

[MaxDSP]

Originally posted by: djheater

Originally posted by: MaxDSP

Originally posted by: djheater

Originally posted by: MaxDSP

Originally posted by: djheater

Originally posted by: MaxDSP
would this work?

FOR /f %%e in ('DIR /b "C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\*.*"') do ( DEL "C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\%%e")

Change <user> to the username and enclose your spaced dir names in quotes as above. There's no need for the logging on this..
I just wanted to give the OP an idea of the porn he'd need to replace.

It should all be on one line... btw

sweet, thanks

Let me know if it works

I'm done with del crap today...just cleaned like 3 machines today the hard way. Will try this tomorrow maybe

If you want to be really crazy you can try this:

FOR /f %%e in ('DIR /b "C:\Documents and Settings"') do (
FOR /f %%p in ('DIR /b "C:\Documents and Settings\%%e\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\*.*"') do (
DEL "C:\Documents and Settings\%%e\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\%%p")
)

This will fill in all the user names from the Documents and Settings folder, as long as they don't contain any spaces (It'll fail/skip 'All Users' for example). That way you can kill all the files for every user on the machine at once.

PS... you'd probably get into trouble if you tried it on a mchine with more than 10 user profiles. your variables would start to overlap....

Well, these aren't shared machines, it's one per user. So I have to physically (or through remote) run the batch file on each machine, prolly over 70 users...