I have a basic bit of code which i am using to delete text files within a given directory[code]...
intdays is a variable which determines how many days the files should be retained for.
To test the code i set intdays to 0, assuming that it would delete any files in the directoy. However it doesn't, but creates no errors.
The time "Now" is #2/8/2012 13:59:00 PM# which is greater than 0. But im confused as to why it doesnt then delete the file?
how I can delete files in a directory that are older than 7 days and have a specific name?
View 12 RepliesI'm working on this program to delete .tmp files that are older then 5 days. The only problem that im running into is if there are no files older than 5 days to display a messagebox "There are no .tmp files older than 5 days". Im using VB.net, this is that i have so far.
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Private Sub Button4_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button4.Click
Try
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I need to write an app to delete files on server Older than X days to clean up disk space. The job/app needs to be scheduled to run say once in a month. Please suggest what would be the best way to handle it? Can Windows Workflow Foundaton be used to achieve the task?
View 3 RepliesI need to delete older bkf files in a directory, only leaving the newest 20.
No, I can not just delete older than x days because there can be more than one backup file per day and some times it may be 2-3 days before a backup file appears.
I have a service that produces .txt files to a folder every 30 seconds. Is there anyway to delete files that are older than x amount of days?
View 2 RepliesI have a sheet which contains various data, from which one of them is dates. I would like a macro that will search through those dates and if it finds a date that is older than 6 months then it will delete the entire row.
View 7 RepliesI am currently working on a program that only I can use to send and retreve files from an external harddrive through my older laptop. But I have only just started and need help with the login form. I want my password and user on labels placed on form 2 and need form 1 to retreive them then I click the login button, however I want form1 to close if the user or password are incorrect. How could I go about placing an if then statment for if correct then it opens a new window if wrong then end program. Heres my login code so far.
Private Sub Login_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Login.Click
If User.Text = "*********" And Pass.Text = "*******" Then
MessageBox.Show("Welcome")
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I have a list of directories that get files added to by other users on my network.I would like a script (triggered by scheduled task) that would detect if there are files in these folders older than 15 minutes, and send me an email. I am able to run Batch/DOS, Python, Perl, or VBS - I have them all installed on the server. As long as they can be triggered from Scheduled task.
Example:
C:UsersFTPJoeSFromCustomer <files dropped here>
C:UsersFTPMarkFromCustomer <files dropped here>
C:UsersFTPRobbieFromCustomer <files dropped here>
C:UsersFTPTammyFromCustomer <files dropped here>
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I am new to VB but I do have VS2005 and I was looking at some code examples here on deleting files by days old and I need to do something similar, I would like to start a say C:myData**.xit and search through all sub folders under myData and move all the .xit files based on days old into a temp folder. Then I could verify them before I delete them manually to be safe. So how do I loop through all sub folders? and can I just modify this code to do that? Here is the code I was thinking about starting with [URL].
Dim files As System.Collections.ObjectModel.ReadOnlyCollection(Of String)
Dim singlefile As String
Dim CreatedOn As Date
'Declare the counter
Dim deletedcount As Integer = 0
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how do i get total no of days between two days which might include leap year
right now i'm getting the no of days by using DateDiff function in vb.net. but i reckon it is not precise. cos it is not validating leapyear.
I need this for 2 different changes.ON one form i got a week calendar, the other a month calendar.Was hoping to add 2 buttons previous & next.To scroll back in time x days, or x days forward.And similar for the months, but instead of days months.Can anybody give me a exaple or a method how to get this to work?Figured it could be done with a loop, but not sure anymore.
View 2 RepliesThe function for getting the difference in days between two days is giving me a wrong answer here.What could i be doing wrong??? DateDiff(DateInterval.Day, CDate("28/1/2011"), CDate("31/1/2011"))
View 1 RepliesGet the current number of usage days, unique usage days, etc in an evaluation license using CryptoLicensing Generator.
View 1 Repliesconvert days to months and days?
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I have a date in the future e.g. 13/10/2008 I need to subtract the current date (today is the 28/09/2010) minus 7 days, so thats 21/09/2010 minus 13/10/2008, which would equal erm, 720 something ? But the current date won't always be 28/09/2010, obviously. I need the code for this. EDIT: When i said future I mean past :)
View 3 RepliesCan someone point me in the direction for displaying the contents of a folder on the form with a check box, then if someone wants to delete a file then check the box and hit delete. How can I do that?
View 5 Repliesi wanna be able to check if the file "thisfile.exe" exists, and if it does then delete all the other *.exe files it finds but not deleteing the "thisfile.exe", how would i be able to do that?
edit - im using vb 2008 express?
I have an external hard disk drive for data backup purpose. Now I want to delete all mp3 files in that drive. How do I do it?NOTE: The mp3 files are contained within many nested folders. For example, K:(artist name)(album name)mp3 filesUpdate: I tried using system.io.directory.getallfiles(), but my mp3 files are contained in many many folders. My current approach is not working
View 4 RepliesThe MSDN Express Library 2008 suggests the following example to delete all of the files in a folderFor Each foundFile As String In My.Computer.FileSystem.GetFiles( My.Computer.FileSystem.SpecialDirectories.MyDocuments, FileIO.SearchOption.SearchAllSubDirectories, "*.*")
My.Computer.FileSystem.DeleteFile(foundFile, FileIO.UIOption.AllDialogs,FileIO.RecycleOption.DeletePermanently)NextI would like to adapt this code to delete all the files in a folder of my choosing; for example, all the files in c:msdnimages. But I'm not getting anywhere.Would someone be kind enough to explain how to substitute c:msdnimages for SpecialDirectories.
I am trying to build a program to delete temporary files from my c drive.
View 3 RepliesI'm writing a little app that I can tell to delete files older than x amount of days.
You select a folder and click go and it does the job but it only does the files within that folder. What I want to do is also delete all the files in all the sub folders. [code]....
I was trying to do something like this (that worked with the Kill method of VB6) System.IO.File.Delete(OrderInfo.ParentFolderPath & "NJ0*.DTA") because there are several files that start with NJ0 and end with .DTA
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i want to delete some files but only if they aren't in use. What i did was a try/catch:
Try
My.Computer.FileSystem.DeleteFile(fileInfo.FullName)
Catch ex As Exception
End Try
but it seems that this method is very slow if i try to delete some files over network.
Is there an faster way to delete files? Is it faster to check first if an file is open? If yes, how can i check if an file is open?
In my application,I have some reports which needs to be viewed frequently.After viewing the reports many times by different users, it shows load error.For different systems, many temporary files are created.i need to delete those files in my single system.now i manually deleting all the temporary files in the temp directory and configure the IIS again.then the report loads properly.But we need to delete these temporary files frequently which makes our life dreadful.Only the report files needs to be deleted.How can i delete these temporary files automatically using code? I have used the following code for this.but some files cant be deleted as those files are in use.Do those temporary files in other system can cause load error in our system?
dim temp as string=Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("TEMP")
dim k as sting()=System.IO.Directory.GetFiles(temp)
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I need a code to find all files. mp3 on your hard disk with certain tags (eg: Shakira, Pitbull, 50 Cent, etc.). and then delete it.
Try
For Each f In Directory.GetFiles("D:", "*.mp3", SearchOption.AllDirectories)
File.Delete(f)
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I need a code to find all files. mp3 on your hard disk with certain tags (eg: Shakira, Pitbull, 50 Cent, etc.). and then delete it.
View 2 RepliesI created a program that allows my users to upload files to an FTP server and make folders. I have one problem. they cant delete the files yet. [url] you want to see the Upload page just enter random credentials). I was wondering if someone can help me make another form that displays files and folders and subfolders, maybe a listbox and when a user highlights something and clicks the delete button it will delete it or the rename button.
View 12 RepliesWhat I basicly want is, a program with-Check boxs, user can check what they want to delete.The check box has to "tell" the button what to delete
Checkbox1= Temp
Checkbox2=Firefox History
Checkbox3=Firefox Cookies
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My app lets you download backup files from the Internet and save them locally.I want the app to be able to automatically delete old backups though. What's the best way to do this?So if I allow the user to store five files named:
backup-03-03-2009.zip
backup-04-03-2009.zip
backup-05-03-2009.zip
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