[Feature Request: Deleting certain files in all subfolders]

Depends on your data structure. The sections in my winapp2.ini scanning from the root take rather long (~10 sec) since they search the complete folder tree (at least the first time, after the folder structure is cached it's faster of course). I have no comparison, so I can't really tell if it is slow or not.

Well, compare it with Windows XP Search, or GREP, or if know how, with a Windows PowerShell script. They complete the same search faster. Or is it just my computer?

 

I hope developers will attend to this matter.

 

Btw: Why the new account? Did your old one get banned?

Yes. Moderator DennisD just told me that he will increase my warning level but said nothing about a permanent ban. But that's what's in effect now. So, I created a new user account because I felt obliged to deliver my "thank you" to developers.

[Feature Request: Deleting certain files in all subfolders]

Yes, that was nice workaround, adding a dot (.) between backslash (\) and pipe (|). Thanks Mike42. I think this workaround makes both Manuel S. and Sephiroth very happy.

 

By the way, don't you find recursion mechanism to be a bit slow? I find my own C# application to be faster. I hope developers will take look into this issue.

[Feature Request: Deleting certain files in all subfolders]

Oops! Sorry Manuel but I just got confirmation that this one does not work:

 

[Thumbs.db files on Drive K]LangSecRef=3002Default=FalseFileKey1=k:\|Thumbs.db|RECURSEFileKey2=k:\|Checklist.ms|RECURSE

 

 

So, the root of the drive cannot be specified for cleanup but when your target is a single subfolder, you can.

 

Conclusion: Thanks developers, but please, keep up the good work!

[Feature Request: Deleting certain files in all subfolders]

^ No, moderator hazelnut. I have not mixed up.

 

The following winsys2.ini code works like a charm:

 

[Thumbs.db files on Drive K]LangSecRef=3002Default=FalseFileKey1=k:\Images|Thumbs.db|RECURSEFileKey2=k:\Images|Checklist.ms|RECURSE

 

Also these two topics are in fact the same thing. I started both. I started the to which you have linked, in which moderator Andavarki advised me to open a case here and so I did.

 

In any case, the message is meant for the developers. In the code of conduct of us developers, he who requests a feature is obliged to thanks the developer when it is implemented.