Shell.Application

[purepest]

Hi

From a previous post, where I was looking for a way to show a progress bar, I learned that you can use shell.application then copyhere and you will see the work being done.

Can anyone tell me if it is possible to do the same thing but delete files instead?

Thanks
Colin

 

[tsuji]

Hello purepest,

Something like this.

filepath="d:\test"
filename="abc.def"

set oshns=createobject("shell.application").namespace(filepath)
oshns.items.item(filename).invokeverb "&Delete"  'heavily localized
set oshns=nothing

regards - tsuji

 

[purepest]

Hi
thanks for that.

Unfortunately I have to delete all files from specific folders on remote servers.

I tried it with *.* in the filename but got shown an object required error.

Any ideas?

Colin

 

[tsuji]

purepest,

Try this.

filepath="\\server\test"

set oshns=createobject("shell.application").namespace(filepath)
for each oitem in oshns.items
    oitem.invokeverb "&Delete"  'heavily localized
next
set oshns=nothing

- tsuji

 

[purepest]

Great

One last thing though. This is to delete badmail from the exchange servers in my orginisation.

On the bridghead servers there are thousands of files. Is there any way to delete with out prompting?

Thanks
Colin

 

[tsuji]

purepest,

Why do you use shell at all? Is there anything holding you back from using fso? To delete mails from public store, personal mailbox etc, do the thing with the proper tools-the shell is not in any case.

- tsuji

 

[purepest]

tsuli

I know what your saying. I have a script that does the job but I was getting complaints about people not having any indication whether the script was doing anything or not.

Didn't go down well when I suggested opening task manager and looking for wscript.exe ^_^

When I used the shell for a copy file operation I liked the progress bar, thats all.

~CY~

 

[EBGreen]

There are several ways to display progress bars during vbscript operations. Search this forum for 'progress bar' and you will find many ways to accomplish this.

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