Can't Get Script To Delete Multiple Items

[Jeff Bellune]

I have a simple (?) script that is supposed to delete everything in my system and user Temp folders, as well as the Recent folder. Here's what I started with:

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 MSG "User and System temporary files will be deleted. Click OK to continue." ,1,;
 DELETE 1,0,"%localappdata%\Temp\* | %windir%\Temp\* | %appdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\*.lnk";

But it doesn't work. The %...% placeholders get parsed and resolved correctly, but nothing ever gets deleted.

During troubleshooting, I was only able to delete multiple items if they were listed by name explicitly. That just won't do.

I assume this is user error, but going by the XYWiki, I can't find out what the problem is. From the Wiki:

* You can use wildchars ( * ? ) if you want, to delete multiple items at once. You can even combine items with wildchars.

* When specifying more than one item, you can put spaces around the pipe separator, they will be stripped automatically.

Examples

delete 1, 0, ":list";
Sends all selected List items to the Recycle Bin without asking for confirmation

delete 0,,"D:\Some Folder";
Deletes folder D:\Some Folder (no Recycle Bin), asking a confirmation or not depending on the user option.

delete 0, 0, "E:\Folder\*.tmp | E:\Folder\*.bak";
Deletes directly (no Recycle Bin, no confirmation) all INI and BAK files in E:\Folder

However, the Scripting Commands Reference in the Help files doesn't mention wild card characters.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,
-Jeff

EDIT: UAC in Vista is turned completely off, and I am running under an administrator account.

[jacky]

hmmm.. right, you're not doing anything wrong, I didn't noticed but it seems wildchars do not work anymore ever since 7.80.0007

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v7.80.0007 - 2008-11-16 15:13
    * SC delete: Now, any non-existing items passed in the [itemlist]
      argument will be simply ignored. No more error message.

[Jeff Bellune]

What do you think: Bug Report or Feature Request?

[jacky]

What do you think: Bug Report or Feature Request?

Given that it worked before, I say bug report. I'm assuming XY does some kind of basic check to see whether or not each item exists (removing those who don't), and fails when there's a wildchars instead of just skipping them - especially since a delete of "d:\folder\*.tmp" didn't trigger any errors when there were no such items.

[Jeff Bellune]

Thanks, jacky. I started a new topic with the same name in the Bug Reports section, and I linked to this topic.

-Jeff

[admin]

hmmm.. right, you're not doing anything wrong, I didn't noticed but it seems wildchars do not work anymore ever since 7.80.0007

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v7.80.0007 - 2008-11-16 15:13
    * SC delete: Now, any non-existing items passed in the [itemlist]
      argument will be simply ignored. No more error message.

Good analysis!