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created a .bat file in ME it's not working

by mko May 31, 2005 4:17PM PDT

my wife wrote a bat file that worked fine on her machine. she created it on her w98, tested it on a fake folder. it worked. she put it in my machine which runs on wME. it does not work.

the .bat file is in c:\windows and this is her file,,, echo on
cd \windows\applic~1\mozilla\firefox\profiles\default.xw9
del cookies-*.txt

she's no slouch in programming, and did it professionally before she retired. i do not know if she changed anything, or HAD to change anything, to make it run in ME.

any help? thanks

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by mko May 31, 2005 7:44PM PDT

the first time, about 70% of the files were deleted.
on ensuing reboots, no files were deleted. after the computer had been on for about 2 hours, i checked the folder again, and 60% of the files had been deleted

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Just one of the wonderful ...
by r. proffitt Former Forum moderator May 31, 2005 9:04PM PDT

Windows ME issues.

Did you try these commands in a command window?

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she did everything in dos
by mko May 31, 2005 10:01PM PDT

if you mean did she test on my machine in command window,,,,,,,,,no.

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Here's the bug I noted years ago.
by r. proffitt Former Forum moderator May 31, 2005 10:05PM PDT

The Del * command seems to fail (ie not delete all) on directories with 10s of thousands of files.

You can ask someone to fix it, but that is unlikely.

Bob

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be aware that as shown...
by Edward ODaniel Jun 4, 2005 10:46AM PDT
echo on
cd \windows\applic~1\mozilla\firefox\profiles\default.xw9
del cookies-*.txt

ONLY files named cookies-1.txt or cookies-mine.txt are going to get deleted. (cookie-1.txt won't because it doesn't meet the specified criteria for deletion)

If you want all text files deleted in that same directory (your line 2 of the batch file), juct change line 3 to read:
del *.txt

What files EXACTLY are you trying to delete?
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