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Consultant

macrumors G5
Original poster
Jun 27, 2007
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Looking for an app or commands to delete certain files from dropped folders. Can't seem to find any on macupdate with search for "delete".

User define
A: folders that starts with user selectable characters
B: Deletes user selectable ".something" files
Save as a droplet or save within preferences so

Drag folder into droplet/app would
- Recursively go through all folders contained in the folder
- Deletes A and B
- Leaves other files alone

Alternatively I guess I can make an action to look inside a folder, and delete such files
 

Consultant

macrumors G5
Original poster
Jun 27, 2007
13,314
34
Made script to delete specific folder in Automator

Someone gave me a Terminal Script to delete the file
find . -name .FileToRemove -exec rm -f {} \;
 
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