Question

I’m trying to make a program that will delete some files and perfrom rutine maintance on a computer by just clickin on one file. I’m testing it as I’m going along and realized that it’s not deleting the folders. I want to delete everything within the folders but not the folders themselves. Here is my code so far:

@echo off
title SYSTEM Optimiation

echo Deleting Temp Folder
del /q /f "C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Local Settings\TEMP"

echo.

echo DONE

echo.

echo Deleting Download folder
del /q /f "C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\My Documents\Downloads"
echo.
echo DONE
echo.
echo.
echo Hit any key to exit.
pause >nul

Answer 1

Try using wildcards and the /s switch on del:

del /q /s /f "%userprofile%\My Documents\Downloads\*"

but this will probably leave directories inside intact, but empty. Another option would be the quite explicit:

for /d /r "%userprofile%\My Documents\Downloads" %%x in (*) do rd /s /q "%%x"
for /r "%userprofile%\My Documents\Downloads" %%x in (*) do del /f "%%x"