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by dsmythe
31 Mar 2006, 18:28
Forum: Problems and Troubleshooting
Topic: Deleting a large amount of files..
Replies: 4
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Re: Deleting a large amount of files..

We have patched this in current version, so please test new version which will be released on end of April 2006. You should be able to delete all files whose path with dos-name length is under 260 characters. I believe that your files satisfy this condition. I will check it out, thank you. I did fi...
by dsmythe
30 Mar 2006, 23:50
Forum: Problems and Troubleshooting
Topic: Deleting a large amount of files..
Replies: 4
Views: 6830

SvA wrote:I'd try

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rd /s \\machine\c$\path
or (even more likely to work)

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rd /s \\?\UNC\machine\c$\path
Already tried it, command does not allow wildcards. I don't want to remove the administrator profile as well just 1000+ student profiles that are eating up all the HD space on 30+ computers.


-d
by dsmythe
30 Mar 2006, 19:11
Forum: Problems and Troubleshooting
Topic: Deleting a large amount of files..
Replies: 4
Views: 6830

Deleting a large amount of files..

I need to clean out the documents and settings folder on a bunch of winXP SP2 boxes. I found SS and it seems to work way faster than the windows explorer but I noticed that SS does not like long (really long) filenames. I keep seeing the message "with full path is too long." error on some ...