delete files and folders on-rev.com

[Thomas McGrath III]

GOT it.

There was some artifact left over at the end of the file name. Looked like either a _ or something

Is there a better way to get a list of the items in a folder on the server with out all getting all of the permissions and other junk?

thanks


-- Tom McGrath III
http://lazyriver.on-rev.com
3mcgrath at comcast.net

On May 14, 2011, at 8:54 PM, Thomas McGrath III wrote:

> I'm sorry I stated in the subject but I should have stated in the email that I want to do this from the desktop for folders in my subdomain on on-rev server.
> 
> I think I am having permission problems even though I created the folder from the same app and want to delete it I get both the "folder is not empty" error and when I tried to walk through the contents I get the "can't delete this file" error.
> 
> 
> put "FolderName" into tName
> put  "ftp://***************%40lazyriver.on-rev.com:**************@liveconnectonline.com/liveconnectonline/" into tPath
> put tPath & tName & "/" into tFolder
> put the itemDelimiter into myItemDelimiter
> 
> put URL tFolder into tresult
> delete line 1 to 2 of tresult -- first two lines end in . and ..
> 
> repeat with x = 1 to the number of lines of tresult
>         if the last char of line x of tresult is not ". " then
>            set the itemDelimiter to space
>            put item -1 of line x of tresult into tFile
>            put tFolder & tFile into tDelete
> 
>            delete URL  tDelete -- "Can't delete that file"
>            put "Result:" && the result & cr after field "Results"
>         end if
>      end repeat
> 
>     set the itemDelimiter to myItemDelimiter
>     delete URL tFolder -- "Folder is not empty"
>      --revDeleteFolder tFolder -- doesn't work
>      put "Result:" && the result after field "All Clients Results"
> 
> 
> -- Tom McGrath III
> http://lazyriver.on-rev.com
> 3mcgrath at comcast.net
> 
> On May 14, 2011, at 7:04 PM, Matthias Rebbe wrote:
> 
>> Hi Thomas,
>> 
>> as Björnke already said you can use delete folder. But this only works if the folder is empty.
>> 
>> To delete folders and their contents (files and also subofolders) i am using
>> 
>> get shell("rm -r "& quote&xArg&quote)
>> 
>> where xArg contains the name of the folder i want to delete.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Matthias
>> 
>> 
>> Am 14.05.2011 um 21:52 schrieb Thomas McGrath III:
>> 
>>> I am having problems deleting files and or folders via script.
>>> 
>>> I have searched and found that revdeleteFolder does not work. But what does?
>>> 
>>> I keep getting errors saying can't delete that file etc.
>>> 
>>> I looked through the lessons online and searched the list but did not find any tuts yet.
>>> 
>>> Any one have a tut on this?
>>> 
>>> Thanks
>>> 
>>> -- Tom McGrath III
>>> http://lazyriver.on-rev.com
>>> 3mcgrath at comcast.net
>>> 
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