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Re: Tool for deleting all files except specific file extension?
de rich 06/07/2006 10:34
Rich_on 6-Jun-2006, laterna@magic.ms wrote:
> I have a folder containing many subfolders.
> Within all this subfolders there are a lot of files having
> different file extensions ( .zip, .jpg, .txt, .doc, .xls, ...)
>
> I want to delete all files in all subfolders except one or
> more specific file extension.
>
> For example, I want to delete all files in all subfolders
> except all .zip and .jpg files.
>
> Do you know a tool (running on Windows XP) which can do this job?
eXtreme Advanced File Manager
http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/link
No need to bother with scripts or batch files, extreame is an XTree clone
which makes file management, IMHO easy.
Anyone who used Xtree in the days of DOS or now uses ZTree will have no
problem.
You can use a mouse (nasty clicky thing) but much easier to use the
keyboard.
For the above senario
select your disk drive
press G to go global
press F to make a file mask - in this case *.txt - only the txt files a
shown
press ctrl-T to tag all of them
press F *.* to revert back to all files
press ctrl-I to invert the tags - everything except txt files are now tagged
press ctrl-D to delete all the tagged files.
OK - I know a batch file once written can be run with the click of a button
as often as you want but a good file manager is much more flexible.
I use Ztree (payware) all the time and would be lost without it.
extreame is now up to version 5 , which must be a recent update as I am
still using v.4.2 - tiny download - 177kb.
There is a link on the site to 'using the original xtree' which is worth a
look.
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rich