Help!

[Alex_CTZ]

How can i delete a folder with item in it.

I know about the

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 delete folder "C:/pathHere"

but that only seems to work when it is empty.


Also,

For some reason open file and launch file
wont open a .log file

how can I make it so when a user presses a button it opens a file?

-Thanks

[Mark]

Hi Alex,

If you change your title into some descriptive text, you'll get more help.

You need to delete the files in the folder before you can delete the folder.

Use a different file extension or use different syntax:

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launch documentPath with applicationPath

Kind regards,

Mark

[Alex_CTZ]

Hi Alex,

If you change your title into some descriptive text, you'll get more help.

You need to delete the files in the folder before you can delete the folder.

Use a different file extension or use different syntax:

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launch documentPath with applicationPath

Kind regards,

Mark

Is there a way to delete each file without specifying the name and path. As there are over 500 files that names change :/

-Thanks

[magice]

This may help. http://lessons.runrev.com/s/3527/m/4067 ... ers-part-1 I think a list of the files in the folder is what you need.

[Klaus]

Hi Alex,

Is there a way to delete each file without specifying the name and path. As there are over 500 files that names change :/

use a repeat loop over a list of "the files"!

Something like this:

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...
put "C:/pathHere" into tPath
put the folder into tOldDirectory
set the folder to tPath
put the files into tFiles
repeat for each line i in tFiles
  delete file i
end repeat
set folder to tOldDirectory
delete folder tPath
...

Best

Klaus

[Mark]

Alex,

suppose that the variable myPath contains the path to the folder. You can use this script to delete all files:

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set the itemDel to slash
set the defaultFolder to myPath
put the files into myFiles
filter myFiles without "."
filter myFiles without ".."
repeat for each line myFile in myFiles
  delete file myFile
end repeat
set the defaultFolder to item 1 to -2 of myPath
delete folder myPath

Kind regards,

Mark

[Mark]

Klaus,

What if the old directory is the same as the folder that is to be deleted?

Mark

[Klaus]

Hi Mark,

What if the old directory is the same as the folder that is to be deleted?

well, that wouldn't affect me, personally, at all!

Best

Klaus

[Alex_CTZ]

Thanks so much all!, I am really happy I chose Livecode to start out with as the help community is the best Thanks again

-Alex