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Windows - Delete file on HTML close

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MoshiachNow

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HI,
I guess I would do it with VBscript - how can I delete a certain file when my HTML gets closed ?

Thanks

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Is this on the server or the client?

Can you explain a little more of your needs - otherwise this sounds like malware, and you won't get any help on this forum for that!

When you sorted your needs, you will do better to post in the appropriate forum as you can't achieve this with HTML

Client side, try forum216 for Javascript or forum329 for VBScript

Server side, whichever language forum you want to use and your server supports (PHP, ASP etc etc)

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HI,

I'm running on a standalone machine (client).
My HTML file includes some VBscript that creates some files in temp dir,for display purpose.
Once the user finished viewing the HTML,I want to cleanup the temp dir.
Thanks

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Well,

I guess I have created an interesting way of viewing customer logs by support...
I bring over from customer HTML log and a zip file.HTML has special links that work AFTER the zip file with a full blown logs is expanded to a temp dir.
So I want to cleanup this temp dir once the HTML is closed,it can be pretty big sometimes.
Thanks

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because the zip is activated by a VBscript from WITHIN my HTML file,thus the cleanup must also happen from HTML...

<script language=VBScript>
set objShell=CreateObject(\"Wscript.Shell\")
objShell.Run(\"unzip -o \"\"%userprofile%\\Desktop\\$ZIPNAME1\"\" -d c:\\TEMP\")

</script>


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Try re-reading my first reply to you.

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One thing you might want to look into is how to trigger the VBscript to do the delete. I don't know about VBscript but JavaScript has the following:
Code: 
	window.onbeforeunload = function() {
		// Trigger the delete here.
	}
Which will run just before the page is unloaded (like from the upper left close X button). The onunload will only be triggered when the page is actually unloaded, and will not be called when the window is closed.


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