RE: help needed with cleanfm batch file
Hi Dave, Sorry I did not see your message earlier, I've been swamped at work and not reading so much home email the past few days. I'n now trying to catch up on 583 new emails. Anyway, I wrote the original batch file about 20 years ago as a general cleanup tool and modified it for just FM files about 15 years ago when I started using FM. I posted it on the list a few months ago when somebody asked how to clean out the backup files from their FM directory. The trick to using it is that you have to be IN the directory where the FM files are. To do that, open a DOS window (cmd.exe) from that directory, then run the batch file. If you just open a DOS window in its default directory (windows\system32) it will try to find the .backup files there, and of course, that doesn't work. When I wrote the original batch file, the /s switch had not been implemented in the DIR or DEL commands, so I used a freebee executable called sweep.com to do the recursion and get any files in subdirs too. But it's easier to just use the /s switch as Syed as shown in his example. However, I do not think it is necessary to check the list before deleting backup files. I've never had my batch file go wrong in 20 years, ever. Unlike Syed, I use a batch file and do not type it in by hand each time. Here's the batch file again. @echo off echo. echo Deleting the following files from the current directory: dir *.backup.* *.lck echo. del *.backup.* *.lck Let me know if you have any more questions about the file or how to use it. BTW, if you just type the name of the original batch file CLEAN.BAT (also attached) without any entries, it displays the help for the file. Hope this helps, Diane Gaskill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 11:51 AM To: Eason, David; Bruce Foster; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: help needed with cleanfm batch file Using a DOS Command Prompt window ... at the top of the directory tree with all the FrameMaker documents (or at the root of the drive, if you really want to do that ... carefully!): 1. First I verify which files are going to get deleted: dir *.backup.* *.lck /s I check the dir listing result, and once I am sure that only the files that I want deleted, will get deleted, I do: del *.backup.* *.lck /s And they are gone! :) The /s searches subdirectories below the current working directory ... For safety, I use two DOS command prompt batch files ... so I do not have to worry about typo's in what I type. For example, my batch file (called dback.bat) for the deletion has a single line in it: del *.backup.* *.lck %1% %2% %3% %4% %5% %6% %7% %8% %9% in it. Then I can add *more* files for deletion (like *.lck or *.tpdf or *.ps ... always with care!) and can also add /s to get a recursive deletion through the directory tree just by saying any of the following: dback dback /s dback *.tpdf dback *.tpdf *.ps dback *.tpdf *.ps /s and they all work fine for me. Z Dave Reynolds wrote: Hi Folks A month or 3 ago someone posted a batch file to clean up Frame's backup and lock files from a folder. I kept a copy of the batch file code, but now that I want to use it, I can't find the instructions on how to use it. My manual has expanded and now it is becoming tedious to manually delete all those .backup files. Any help would be appreciated. Cheers Dave ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/dgcaller%40earthlink.net Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: help needed with cleanfm batch file
I delete unwanted files by running a search and deleting the found files. 1.Press Start Search For Files or Folders All files and folders All or part of the file name. 2.Type *.backup.* in the text box. 3.Press Search. After finding all the files, highlight and delete them. That way, you find and delete them all, regardless of location. Repeat the procedure for each type of file to delete. Regards, David Eason LSI Corporation Contract Technical Writer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 303-544-5433 Cell: 303-941-3512 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruce Foster Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 10:35 AM To: INTERNET:framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: help needed with cleanfm batch file Dave, I don't have the batch file, but you can delete unwanted files as follows: 1. Open a command prompt by choosing Start Run, type cmd.exe, and click OK. 2. In the command prompt, go to the directory you want to clean up using the cd command. 3. To delete backup and lock files, execute the commands: del *.backup.* del *.lck You can put these in a batch file and run that, too. Regards, Bruce Message text written by INTERNET:framers@lists.frameusers.com Message: 21 Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:57:15 +1300 From: Dave Reynolds [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: help needed with cleanfm batch file To: FrameUsers List framers@lists.frameusers.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hi Folks A month or 3 ago someone posted a batch file to clean up Frame's backup and lock files from a folder. I kept a copy of the batch file code, but now that I want to use it, I can't find the instructions on how to use it. My manual has expanded and now it is becoming tedious to manually delete all those .backup files. Any help would be appreciated. Cheers Dave ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/david.eason%40lsi.co m Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: help needed with cleanfm batch file
Using a DOS Command Prompt window ... at the top of the directory tree with all the FrameMaker documents (or at the root of the drive, if you really want to do that ... carefully!): 1. First I verify which files are going to get deleted: dir *.backup.* *.lck /s I check the dir listing result, and once I am sure that only the files that I want deleted, will get deleted, I do: del *.backup.* *.lck /s And they are gone! :) The /s searches subdirectories below the current working directory ... For safety, I use two DOS command prompt batch files ... so I do not have to worry about typo's in what I type. For example, my batch file (called dback.bat) for the deletion has a single line in it: del *.backup.* *.lck %1% %2% %3% %4% %5% %6% %7% %8% %9% in it. Then I can add *more* files for deletion (like *.lck or *.tpdf or *.ps ... always with care!) and can also add /s to get a recursive deletion through the directory tree just by saying any of the following: dback dback /s dback *.tpdf dback *.tpdf *.ps dback *.tpdf *.ps /s and they all work fine for me. Z Dave Reynolds wrote: Hi Folks A month or 3 ago someone posted a batch file to clean up Frame's backup and lock files from a folder. I kept a copy of the batch file code, but now that I want to use it, I can't find the instructions on how to use it. My manual has expanded and now it is becoming tedious to manually delete all those .backup files. Any help would be appreciated. Cheers Dave ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
