How about creating a new folder each time you open so the last one could be deleted... there is this external done by a colleague of mine.. it builds perfect in OSX 10.6.8
http://puredata.info/Members/estebancalcagno/CreateFolder/view?searchterm=createfolder <http://puredata.info/Members/estebancalcagno/CreateFolder/view?searchterm=createfolder> just an idea On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 1:52 PM, Sebastian Valenzuela < [email protected]> wrote: > Thank you all so much for the great answers :) > > Since I posed the question I have been working out a solution. In the > attached file I first send a message to [shell] to tell me how many files > are in the folder. Then, since all the files are named "1.wav", "2.wav", > etc., I run those numbers through a [list-drip] and tell [shell] to delete > them one at a time. It ALMOST works I think, but it has an error that says > "shell: old process still running"... Maybe [list-drip]'s consecutive > messages are too fast? Maybe there is no time between the first kind of > [shell] command and the second? > > Also, I'm a Macbook Pro (4 GB ram) user running 10.7.5 Lion. > > I'd appreciate any help with my code. Like I said, I think I'm almost > there, maybe my code needs a little tweaking. > > Thank you, > Sebastian > > > On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 7:24 AM, Lorenzo Sutton > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi. >> >> Just a small addition to the various answers >> >> >> On 27/01/13 22:25, Sebastian Valenzuela wrote: >> >>> Hi list, >>> >>> My Pd patch creates and saves new audio files to a designated folder on >>> my desktop. I would like to have Pd delete these files every time I open my >>> patch ([loadbang]). >>> >>> I've heard the [shell] object is a possibility, but i'm not too keen on >>> terminal commands or how they will pertain to [shell]... >>> >> It would be helpful if you specified on with Operating System you are, >> because [shell] is heavily OS dependent (I'm guessing Windows, but I may be >> wrong) >> >> >>> Can anyone please give me an example of a command I would send to >>> [shell] to delete all files within a specified folder on my desktop? If >>> this isn't the best way to do it, is there another possibility through Pd? >>> >> A different strategy might also be to actually *not* delete files from >> within Pd, but outside, befor or after you close your patch. This is easily >> accoplished e.g. by a script. >> >> Also a suggestion would be to give the temporary files very eloquent >> names such as 'TEMP_FILE_TO_DELETE_0001.wav' etc. and (whichever way you >> decide to do it) delete specifically *those* files instead of e.g. the >> whole directory, so e.g. instead of: >> >> rm -f ./dir_to_delete/* >> >> something like >> >> rm -f ./dir_to_delete/TEMP_FILE_TO_**DELETE_*.wav' >> >> In my humble opinion it makes it more obvious what you want to delete, >> and (hopefully) less error/disaster prone (ok.. I've been bit by >> accidentally deleting files with no back up) >> >> Lorenzo. >> >>> >>> Thank you for your time, >>> Sebastian >>> >>> >>> >>> ______________________________**_________________ >>> [email protected] mailing list >>> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/** >>> listinfo/pd-list <http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list> >>> >> >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> [email protected] mailing list >> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/** >> listinfo/pd-list <http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list> >> > > > > -- > Sebastian Ignacio Valenzuela Rojas > Composer - Performer > svalenzuelamusic.wix.com/home > youtube.com/svalenzuelamusic <http://www.youtube.com/svalenzuelamusic> > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > > -- Lic. José Rafael Subía Valdez SoundArtist www.jrsv.net
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