kukris Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 The following commands won't workdir %userprofile%\recent\*.*del %userprofile%\recent\*.*The following error is displayedThe system cannot find the path specified.However when I usecd %userprofile%\recentit changes to my profile folder and in the subfolder recent where I can use the DEL commandMy profile doesn't contain any special characters, just a dot in the profile name.Has someone a solution for this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Snrub Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 Use quotes:dir "%userprofile%\recent"del "%userprofile%\recent\*.*"%userprofile% contains spaces ("C:\Documents and Settings\username"), so you need to delimit the path with quotes for dir & del to work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yzöwl Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 just to add to the above, the CD command does not treat spaces as delimiters and therefore doesn't require the quotes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gunsmokingman Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 Here is a VBS script that will delete all the files in RecentSave As DeleteRecent.VbsDim Act : Set Act = CreateObject("Wscript.shell") Dim Fso : Set Fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Dim User : User = Act.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%userProfile%\recent\") Dim Folder : Set Folder = Fso.GetFolder(User) Dim Files : Set Files = Folder.Files Dim objFile For Each objFile in Files Fso.DeleteFile(objFile.Path), True Next Act.Popup "Completed Script",5,"Finished",0 + 32 + 0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kukris Posted August 12, 2006 Author Share Posted August 12, 2006 Thank you all for the info Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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