Please click on the following link to open the newsletter signup page: Ghacks Newsletter Sign up. Ghacks is a technology news blog that was founded in by Martin Brinkmann. It has since then become one of the most popular tech news sites on the Internet with five authors and regular contributions from freelance writers. Search for:. Martin Brinkmann. Windows , Windows tips. Delete large folders on Windows using command line operation. Microsoft Windows Security Updates January overview.
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How fast is it? None said on July 31, at am. Lassi said on December 11, at am. Thorky said on July 18, at am. HK-Rapper said on July 18, at pm. Dunno what you want to improve but you as end-user not really mess with the file system …. Richard said on July 18, at pm. Martin Thanks for this. Very useful. Mikhoul said on July 18, at pm. Matrix said on July 19, at pm.
Ramon said on January 28, at pm. TelV said on July 18, at pm. Croatoan said on July 18, at pm. One file 45GB takes few seconds, files 1 GB a few minutes. Por la tanto.
Kalin said on August 27, at pm. Be more positive! BradN said on October 20, at pm. Emil said on July 18, at pm. Berlin said on July 18, at pm. Doc said on July 19, at am. Removes deletes a directory. No, shift DEL still does the pointless calculation. Mountainking said on July 19, at am. Is super fast for me….. Martin Brinkmann said on July 19, at am. It should not be super fast if the folder is huge meaning lots of files and folders inside. George said on October 14, at pm.
Anonymous said on March 14, at am. Shadess said on November 25, at pm. PeaceByJesus said on January 23, at pm. I send some feedback to MS on this also: If you choose a folder to be deleted, such as a 2GB folder in the C drive on a SSD hard drive, then it takes over 7 minutes just to calculate it. Shawn said on June 3, at am. No Name said on January 9, at pm. John Teller said on June 7, at pm. L0eNNe said on November 2, at pm. Martin Brinkmann said on November 24, at am.
Did you add the batch file to a location in PATH? DGrv said on April 16, at am. It will not prompt for confirmation though Windows Registry Editor Version 5. Anonymous said on April 18, at pm. Martin Brinkmann said on April 18, at pm.
Create a text file and copy the below command line :. As a result, we will tell the cmd remove all files in folder that are located in the Test folder. Also, you can use Task Scheduler to create scheduled task. Batch to delete file. Batch to delete all files. Prev Article. Next Article. I would like to suggest using simple tool like cleardir.
So, in batch file you can write:. And you'll get empty directory dir. A bit slow, but still resolves the "problem". Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams?
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Active 20 days ago. Viewed k times. Peter Mortensen It'll give you information in how to use the tool. I would suggest per the up votes to change the correct answer — GregM. In fact it is often what I don't want, because then I lose the original timestamp of the directory and any permissions it had.
See my answer for how to remove all of the contents of a directory but leave the directory itself in place. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. GregM GregM 3, 3 3 gold badges 32 32 silver badges 49 49 bronze badges. Awesome, I was looking for something to clean up files and folders for a monthly batch job and this did the trick. Make sure the directory exists before you do this. If you have 'special' characters in your filenames, first do chcp to change encoding to UTF — Demelziraptor.
The reason you want to make sure that the directory exists is that otherwise, it will clear whatever directory you are currently in. In my case, it was the batch file I had been working on for over 30 minutes. Show 6 more comments.
That will remove everything. DontVoteMeDown Jon Martin Jon Martin 3, 5 5 gold badges 26 26 silver badges 45 45 bronze badges. Note: If you want to bypass "Are you sure you want to delete This shouldn't be marked as the correct answer because it doesn't delete folders as stated in the question. I think the question is about emptying the directory of all content, but not deleting the directory itself.
So, quick tip - if you try to run this on a network path, even with the "IF EXIST" statement, it will fail to set the folder and a statement will be recorded in the cmd prompt "UNC paths not supporting, defaulting to windows directory" then it will attempt to delete everything in your windows directory.
So be careful. I puzzled over exactly how this worked for a little bit, so as an explanation for others: The pushd changes into the directory of which you want to delete the children. Very cunning Mr Stewart!
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