Vista - Script to clean up Flash Player old files

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@xxxxxxSince 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:82372F9E-F6DC-48DE-97D3-47E4126860BB@xxxxxxSimple - 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.

nightproblems.underUserNamealso

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

"Pegasus [MVP]" wrote:

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:

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

Adobe - Flash Player : Settings Manager - Website Storage Settings panel

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: