Tag for questions regarding file deletion. O.S. independent.
Questions tagged [delete-file]
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Why is it important to delete files in-order to remove them faster?
Some time ago I learned that rsync deletes files much faster that many other tools.
A few days ago I came across this wonderful answer on Serverfault which explains why rsync is so good at deleting files.
Quotation from that answer:
I revisited…
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How do you completely delete projects in Xcode?
So if I go into my selected save folder for my projects and delete my project it no longer shows up in Xcode. However I can still find some other files if I look under my user name/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData. There are other files Xcode…
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Bizarre directory delete behaviour on SSD drive
Directory c:\test has 50 or so files in it, no subdirectories.
If IO.Directory.Exists("C:\test") Then
IO.Directory.Delete("C:\test", True)
End If
IO.Directory.CreateDirectory("C:\test")
Drive C is Intel's X25-M80 SSD drive, OS…
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How to get all the files exceeding certain size and deleting them
I am looking for a linux command to
get all the files exceeding a
certain size from the current
directory and its sub-directories.
Whats the easiest way to delete all these files?
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Windows 2008 R2 - Kernel (System Process PID=4) is locking files and folders
Windows 2008 R2 - Kernel (System Process PID=4) is locking files and folders for a long time.
For example when deleting a file, the file may remain locked for 1 minute or more and only after that be deleted.
On another occasions I encountered files…
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What does it mean if some files in TortoiseSVN are marked "deleted" and others "deleted (+)" with a plus sign?
I'm about to do a commit in TortoiseSVN involving rearranging a lot of files and directories. On the "commit" window, there are several files whose text status is "deleted" or "added" but others whose text status is "deleted (+)" or "added (+)".…
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Windows batch file to delete .svn files and folders
In order to delete all ".svn" files/folders/subfolders in "myfolder" I use this simple line in a batch file:
FOR /R myfolder %%X IN (.svn) DO (RD /S /Q "%%X")
This works, but if there are no ".svn" files/folders the batch file shows a warning…
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Waiting for system to delete file
I had a problem with refreshing file list after deleting a file. When I gave command to delete file, the exception was thrown because the refresh method tried to access a file that was supposed to be deleted.
After some thought and debuging I came…
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Git ignore deleted files
I have a website project that has more than 50,000 unimportant files (to development) in some directories.
/website.com/files/1.txt
/website.com/files/2.txt
/website.com/files/3.txt
/website.com/files/etc.txt
The stuff in /files is already in the…
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How can I make my .NET application erase itself?
How can I make my C# app erase itself (self-destruct)? Here's two ways that I think might work:
Supply another program that deletes the main program. How is this deleter program deleted then, though?
Create a process to CMD that waits a few seconds…
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How to delete a File in Google Drive?
How do I write a Google Apps Script that deletes files?
This finds files:
var ExistingFiles = DocsList.find(fileName);
But DocsList.deleteFile does not exist to delete a file.
Is there a way to move those files to another Folder or to Trash?
The…
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Add files to SVN then delete before commit
I guess I was careless.
I added a bunch of files to svn with svn add,
then I saw a few files added that I didn't want so I deleted them with rm.
Now I can't commit anymore because the commit is missing files. I tried svn cleanup but it didn't…
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Batch file to delete files with .bak extension
In batch, I want to delete all files *.bak in various folders on disk c:\.
Can anyone help me?
ex.:
all c:
del *.bak /s /a
Thank you.
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How to correct delete catalina.out?
I couldn't restart Tomcat webserver. But catalina.out get very big.
I have tried delete on test server and created new empty. But Tomcat doesn't write anymore in new catalina.out. How correct delete/create empty new one ?
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How to locate and recover a deleted file
At some stage in the past I had a "foo.txt" which was under Mercurial source control. However it has now been deleted.
How can I recover the file when I don't know the last Mercurial revision in which the file was deleted?
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