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liamk23PostSeptember 13, 2020, 13:06
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Normal topicTrash Items Function

Hi,

I am wanting to use the trash items function within an action to delete all files within a folder but not the folder itself. I cannot figure out how i get the action function to just remove the files, it keeps deleting the folder also.

I have tried:
/Users/username/Downloads/coverDownloads/
/Users/username/Downloads/coverDownloads/*
/Users/username/Downloads/coverDownloads/*.*

All of the above deletes the 'coverDownloads' folder.

Please can you help with this? Thank you
liamk23PostSeptember 13, 2020, 13:24
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You know I will just write a little script to run from the action, that way i can avoid sending to trash bin also, removing an additional step. Thank you
2MR2PostSeptember 13, 2020, 13:28
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Normal topicRe: Trash Items Function

The Trash statement takes a list of files to be deleted. It is not directly associated with any loaded files. The following code snippet will do what you want:

Contents of Folder "~/Downloads" (Full paths of Files and Folders) to named variable 'contents'
Trash Items in "\<contents>"
liamk23PostSeptember 13, 2020, 13:31
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Normal topicRe: Trash Items Function

nice! Legend. I knew the capability would be there. Cheers
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