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eyalmargani
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Nov 03, 2022

DELETE USERS FILES FROM USER PROFILE BY GPO

hello , in my  organization i need to delete all user's profiles files. i tried to it by gpo with the cmd script::del /f d:\user\%USERNAME%\documents\*.* del /f d:\user\%USERNAME%\Videos\*.* del ...
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eyalmargani
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Nov 10, 2022
i write the following script :
del /q /f /s d:\user\%userprofile%\documents\*
del /q /f /s d:\user\%userprofile%\Videos\*
del /q /f /s d:\user\%userprofile%\Pictures\*
del /q /f /s d:\user\%userprofile%\Music\*
del /q /f /s d:\user\%userprofile%\Desktop\*
del /q /f /s d:\user\%userprofile%\Downloads\*

as i wrote before the user profile folder is at drive d.
it stil doesnt work.
any ideas?
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Leavii
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Nov 10, 2022

eyalmargani I would also recommend with any script you write to have a log of sorts when it isn't ran interactively.  Something as simple as the below will go a long way.  I also prefer to use powershell...

 

 

 

set "log=C:\users\public\delete-files.log"

del /q /f /s %userprofile%\documents\*

if %errorlevel% equ 0 (

    (
        echo Files deleted
    )>>%log%

) else (

    (
        echo Error: %errorlevel%
    )>>%log%

)

 

 

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