Can't delete files from folder

[ChefSausage]

I'm receiving a very strange error when trying to delete files from a certain folder.

On a template called purgefiles.asp, I have a line of code to delete everything from a folder:

fs.DeleteFile("w:\inetpub\

http://wwwroot\images\*.png")

However, when I execute purgefiles.asp in the browser, I get this error:

Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a0035'
File not found
/fairlook_test/purgefiles.asp, line 49

Now, line 49 contains the aforementioned delete command, but why is it saying that it cannot find a template that it's not supposed to delete in the first place?

 

[GaryC123]

You can't use wildcards in that statement

http://www.intouch-media.co.uk

 

[GaryC123]

oops pressed enter too soon there

Off the top of my head what you could do is run thru a loop passing the names into the line like (but I'm not entirely sure on this)

for i =1 to 10
objFS.DeleteFile (fname(i))
next

http://www.intouch-media.co.uk

 

[ChefSausage]

You can't? I read on an online ASP site that wildcards were allowed in such a statement. How else could you delete the entire contents of a folder without creating an array of all the filenames, then deleting them?

 

[GaryC123]

Yeah you can, dunno what I was thinking

http://www.intouch-media.co.uk

 

[Tarwn]

Make sure you have at least one file in that folder that matches *.png, otherwise you will get a file not found error. Seems a little odd to me that you can delete with wildcards, but only if at least one file matches that wildcard expression

-Tarwn

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