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Steve
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25th Sep 14 at 14:48   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Need a batch script or vbscript that will traverse all the users home drive directories and delete the contents of a folder inside each one.

eg

e:\users\username1\downloads
e:\users\username2\downloads
e:\users\username3\downloads

And so on

Any ideas?

Can obv do it with a log off script but I don't want to slow down the log off process, and there are some home folders on there with files in where the user is no longer logging in so would like something automated I can run on the server


[Edited on 25-09-2014 by Steve]
Kyle T
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25th Sep 14 at 17:33   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Powershell

remove-item e:\users\*\downloads\*

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Kyle T
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25th Sep 14 at 17:33   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Oh with a -force I think to avoid prompts?

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Steve
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25th Sep 14 at 18:44   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
so the * i assume will just make it apply to all the sub directories?
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Script worked well, thanks
Kyle T
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26th Sep 14 at 14:43   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Sorry, missed your last question but glad it worked.

I guess you're doing this because you've got profile redirects to a server and the downloads folders are just hogging space?

If so, you can change the profile redirect settings in group policy to exclude the Downloads, Desktop, whatever else from being redirected.

We only redirect My Documents, and users are taught to keep anything of value in there, and that content anywhere else on the computer is vulnerable to loss.

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Steve
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26th Sep 14 at 14:54   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Yeah I want to put downloads back to being stored locally, something Il look at soon

 
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