All my users Application Data folders are redirected to a file server.
Everyone has Flash installed in their IE, so when I do a robocopy every night
I end up copying all these pointless files back and forth between servers,
which makes the log files painfully hard to review when there are problems.
Is there a way in vbscript to have it delete all the files and folders under
the randomly generated name folders, as shown below. I substituted UserName
in the path below for what could really be one of a couple hundred user
names. The 6RS7BM4P could be any random grouping of letters and numbers also
from what I can tell.

d:\UserName\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash Player\
d:\UserName\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash
Player\#SharedObjects\
d:\UserName\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash
Player\#SharedObjects\6RS7BM4P\
d:\UserName\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash
Player\#SharedObjects\6RS7BM4P\anthropologie.com\
d:\UserName\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash
Player\#SharedObjects\6RS7BM4P\as1.suitesmart.com\
d:\UserName\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash
Player\#SharedObjects\6RS7BM4P\as1.suitesmart.com\_f5e.swf\
d:\UserName\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash
Player\#SharedObjects\6RS7BM4P\bannerfarm.ace.advertising.com\
d:\UserName\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash
Player\#SharedObjects\6RS7BM4P\bin.clearspring.com\
d:\UserName\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash
Player\#SharedObjects\6RS7BM4P\blip.tv\
d:\UserName\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash
Player\#SharedObjects\6RS7BM4P\cdn.widgetserver.com\
d:\UserName\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash
Player\#SharedObjects\6RS7BM4P\cdn1.eyewonder.com\
d:\UserName\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash
Player\#SharedObjects\6RS7BM4P\cdn4.specificclick.net\
d:\UserName\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash
Player\#SharedObjects\6RS7BM4P\cdn4.specificclick.net\img\
d:\UserName\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash
Player\#SharedObjects\6RS7BM4P\core.videoegg.com\
d:\UserName\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash
Player\#SharedObjects\6RS7BM4P\core.videoegg.com\#com\
d:\UserName\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash
Player\#SharedObjects\6RS7BM4P\core.videoegg.com\#com\videoegg\
d:\UserName\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash
Player\#SharedObjects\6RS7BM4P\core.videoegg.com\#ve\
d:\UserName\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash
Player\#SharedObjects\6RS7BM4P\farm.sproutbuilder.com\

"Rich" <richjone@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:FA8C7048-5E64-4B7E-8CC5-6EEDC83FA09C@xxxxxx

> All my users Application Data folders are redirected to a file server.
> Everyone has Flash installed in their IE, so when I do a robocopy every
> night
> I end up copying all these pointless files back and forth between servers,
> which makes the log files painfully hard to review when there are
> problems.
> Is there a way in vbscript to have it delete all the files and folders
> under
> the randomly generated name folders, as shown below. I substituted
> UserName
> in the path below for what could really be one of a couple hundred user
> names. The 6RS7BM4P could be any random grouping of letters and numbers
> also
> from what I can tell.
>
> d:\UserName\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash Player\
> d:\UserName\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash
> Player\#SharedObjects\

Since you're already using robocopy.exe (which is a console command), it
would make sense to use other console commands to clean our your folders,
e.g. like so:
@echo off
set Folder=d:\UserName\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash
Player\#SharedObjects
for /d %%a in ("%Folder%\*.*") do (
echo rd /s /q "%%a"
echo md "%%a"
)
robocopy ... ... ...

Remove the words "echo" in lines 4 and 5 to activate the batch file.

Is there a smooth way to have it fill in the UserName in the path with the
actual names of the folders under the root level of d: ? or would i just
have to redo that little piece of code and hardcode the username in each time.

when i go into D, i have the following folders as example

Al
Bob
Charles
Derrick
Eric
etc etc...

"Pegasus [MVP]" wrote:

>
> "Rich" <richjone@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:FA8C7048-5E64-4B7E-8CC5-6EEDC83FA09C@xxxxxx

> > All my users Application Data folders are redirected to a file server.
> > Everyone has Flash installed in their IE, so when I do a robocopy every
> > night
> > I end up copying all these pointless files back and forth between servers,
> > which makes the log files painfully hard to review when there are
> > problems.
> > Is there a way in vbscript to have it delete all the files and folders
> > under
> > the randomly generated name folders, as shown below. I substituted
> > UserName
> > in the path below for what could really be one of a couple hundred user
> > names. The 6RS7BM4P could be any random grouping of letters and numbers
> > also
> > from what I can tell.
> >
> > d:\UserName\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash Player\
> > d:\UserName\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash
> > Player\#SharedObjects\

>
> Since you're already using robocopy.exe (which is a console command), it
> would make sense to use other console commands to clean our your folders,
> e.g. like so:
> @echo off
> set Folder=d:\UserName\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash
> Player\#SharedObjects
> for /d %%a in ("%Folder%\*.*") do (
> echo rd /s /q "%%a"
> echo md "%%a"
> )
> robocopy ... ... ...
>
> Remove the words "echo" in lines 4 and 5 to activate the batch file.
>
>
>

"Rich" <richjone@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:82372F9E-F6DC-48DE-97D3-47E4126860BB@xxxxxx

> Is there a smooth way to have it fill in the UserName in the path with the
> actual names of the folders under the root level of d: ? or would i just
> have to redo that little piece of code and hardcode the username in each
> time.
>
> when i go into D, i have the following folders as example
>
> Al
> Bob
> Charles
> Derrick
> Eric
> etc etc...
>

Simple - you call the existing program once for each name, using exactly the
same code as you already have:
@echo off
for /d %%a in (d:\*.*) do call :Sub %%a
goto :eof

:Sub
set Folder=d:\%*\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash Player\#SharedObjects
for /d %%b in ("%Folder%\*.*") do (
echo rd /s /q "%%b"
echo md "%%b"
)

I delete the Macromedia folder itself whenever I see it.
As far as I know that folder is only for "super cookies" --
unauthorized, undisclosed large volume storage of data
by a website on the client machine.
But I don't actually have Flash installed myself, so I've
never investigated whether there could ever, possibly,
be something useful in those folders.

> All my users Application Data folders are redirected to a file server.
> Everyone has Flash installed in their IE, so when I do a robocopy every

night

> I end up copying all these pointless files back and forth between servers,
> which makes the log files painfully hard to review when there are

problems.

> Is there a way in vbscript to have it delete all the files and folders

under

> the randomly generated name folders, as shown below. I substituted

UserName

> in the path below for what could really be one of a couple hundred user
> names. The 6RS7BM4P could be any random grouping of letters and numbers

also

> from what I can tell.
>
> d:\UserName\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash Player\
> d:\UserName\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash
> Player\#SharedObjects\
> d:\UserName\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash
> Player\#SharedObjects\6RS7BM4P\
> d:\UserName\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash
> Player\#SharedObjects\6RS7BM4P\anthropologie.com\
> d:\UserName\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash
> Player\#SharedObjects\6RS7BM4P\as1.suitesmart.com\
> d:\UserName\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash
> Player\#SharedObjects\6RS7BM4P\as1.suitesmart.com\_f5e.swf\
> d:\UserName\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash
> Player\#SharedObjects\6RS7BM4P\bannerfarm.ace.advertising.com\
> d:\UserName\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash
> Player\#SharedObjects\6RS7BM4P\bin.clearspring.com\
> d:\UserName\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash
> Player\#SharedObjects\6RS7BM4P\blip.tv\
> d:\UserName\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash
> Player\#SharedObjects\6RS7BM4P\cdn.widgetserver.com\
> d:\UserName\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash
> Player\#SharedObjects\6RS7BM4P\cdn1.eyewonder.com\
> d:\UserName\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash
> Player\#SharedObjects\6RS7BM4P\cdn4.specificclick.net\
> d:\UserName\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash
> Player\#SharedObjects\6RS7BM4P\cdn4.specificclick.net\img\
> d:\UserName\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash
> Player\#SharedObjects\6RS7BM4P\core.videoegg.com\
> d:\UserName\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash
> Player\#SharedObjects\6RS7BM4P\core.videoegg.com\#com\
> d:\UserName\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash
> Player\#SharedObjects\6RS7BM4P\core.videoegg.com\#com\videoegg\
> d:\UserName\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash
> Player\#SharedObjects\6RS7BM4P\core.videoegg.com\#ve\
> d:\UserName\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash
> Player\#SharedObjects\6RS7BM4P\farm.sproutbuilder.com\

Thanks Pegasus. I will give this a try! You're a genius.

"Pegasus [MVP]" wrote:

>
> "Rich" <richjone@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:82372F9E-F6DC-48DE-97D3-47E4126860BB@xxxxxx

> > Is there a smooth way to have it fill in the UserName in the path with the
> > actual names of the folders under the root level of d: ? or would i just
> > have to redo that little piece of code and hardcode the username in each
> > time.
> >
> > when i go into D, i have the following folders as example
> >
> > Al
> > Bob
> > Charles
> > Derrick
> > Eric
> > etc etc...
> >

>
> Simple - you call the existing program once for each name, using exactly the
> same code as you already have:
> @echo off
> for /d %%a in (d:\*.*) do call :Sub %%a
> goto :eof
>
> :Sub
> set Folder=d:\%*\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash Player\#SharedObjects
> for /d %%b in ("%Folder%\*.*") do (
> echo rd /s /q "%%b"
> echo md "%%b"
> )
>
>
>

Pretty nifty, it deletes the folder and all its subfolders, then recreates an
empty one with the same name.

I had to change the one line to read this though in order to get it to work,
does that sound right? i think it might have been getting the d: twice to
start off the value of the Folder variable.

set Folder=%*\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash Player\#SharedObjects



"Pegasus [MVP]" wrote:

>
> "Rich" <richjone@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:82372F9E-F6DC-48DE-97D3-47E4126860BB@xxxxxx

> > Is there a smooth way to have it fill in the UserName in the path with the
> > actual names of the folders under the root level of d: ? or would i just
> > have to redo that little piece of code and hardcode the username in each
> > time.
> >
> > when i go into D, i have the following folders as example
> >
> > Al
> > Bob
> > Charles
> > Derrick
> > Eric
> > etc etc...
> >

>
> Simple - you call the existing program once for each name, using exactly the
> same code as you already have:
> @echo off
> for /d %%a in (d:\*.*) do call :Sub %%a
> goto :eof
>
> :Sub
> set Folder=d:\%*\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash Player\#SharedObjects
> for /d %%b in ("%Folder%\*.*") do (
> echo rd /s /q "%%b"
> echo md "%%b"
> )
>
>
>

Thanks for the feedback, and yes, your correction was approppriate - it
corrected an oversight on my part. You should also consider putting the
"robocopy" command into the main routine, just above the "goto :eof" line.


"Rich" <richjone@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:C5870350-E8B9-4D27-A705-E7038F985B30@xxxxxx

> Pretty nifty, it deletes the folder and all its subfolders, then recreates
> an
> empty one with the same name.
>
> I had to change the one line to read this though in order to get it to
> work,
> does that sound right? i think it might have been getting the d: twice to
> start off the value of the Folder variable.
>
> set Folder=%*\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash Player\#SharedObjects
>
>
>
> "Pegasus [MVP]" wrote:
>

>>
>> "Rich" <richjone@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:82372F9E-F6DC-48DE-97D3-47E4126860BB@xxxxxx

>> > Is there a smooth way to have it fill in the UserName in the path with
>> > the
>> > actual names of the folders under the root level of d: ? or would i
>> > just
>> > have to redo that little piece of code and hardcode the username in
>> > each
>> > time.
>> >
>> > when i go into D, i have the following folders as example
>> >
>> > Al
>> > Bob
>> > Charles
>> > Derrick
>> > Eric
>> > etc etc...
>> >

>>
>> Simple - you call the existing program once for each name, using exactly
>> the
>> same code as you already have:
>> @echo off
>> for /d %%a in (d:\*.*) do call :Sub %%a
>> goto :eof
>>
>> :Sub
>> set Folder=d:\%*\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash Player\#SharedObjects
>> for /d %%b in ("%Folder%\*.*") do (
>> echo rd /s /q "%%b"
>> echo md "%%b"
>> )
>>
>>
>>

very cool, thanks! even though i deleted the folders with this script, that
tool showed a bunch of stuff still stored. any idea where all those files or
data that tool shows is actually stored? in a file somewhere, the registry?

"pacinitaly" wrote:

>
> 'Adobe - Flash Player : Settings Manager - Website Storage Settings
> panel'
> (http://www.macromedia.com/support/do...manager07.html)
>
>
> --
> pacinitaly
>
> SpellCherkers aren't worth a shirt
>