(1) Open folder of interest
(2) Search
(3) Select and deleteThursday, December 07, 2006
Easy Way To Remove Folder Structure in Windows
I'm in the process of switching from CVS to SVN. I wanted to remove all the underlying "CVS" directories for my projects--I first thought to write a recursive batch file that would search and destroy all CVS folders. Frankly, however, I did not really want to spend time looking up old DOS batch commands. J. Lester and T. Scott had the idea to use Windows Search functionality (yes, I know, hard to believe it's good for something). Basically, (1) open the folder that you want to recursively delete some files/folders in, (2) then open the Search box, enter your search criteria, (3) select files and delete. It's that easy; see below:
(1) Open folder of interest
(2) Search
(3) Select and delete
(1) Open folder of interest(2) Search(3) Select and delete
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Very nice tip! Real time saver! I just wanted to cleanup an archive with over two thousands of these files and it took me a few seconds.
It is nice to notice that sometimes we don't have to script something right away, we can do it with conventional software and a less common usage scenario.
Normally I'd look to do this using a script, but this is just too easy.
Great solution.
Thanks.
"cvs export" would have been your friend, as it creates a CVS-free directorystructure of your module. Just to add this to this otherwise great article. :D
This really helped me!! Thank you very much! As another programmer I was looking for a script solution but yours was so easy that it was amazing!!
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