del *.* except one thing

[MAXIMUS2111-SPQR]

heres what im looking to do

we run a purge script to nuke cookies & the like on reboot or shut down

each user has a cookie to there jupiter/meridius quarantine list for email spam

the cookie is called username@webmin[2]

my goal here is kill/nuke/purge all temp & cookie crap except that cookie

here is the script we are using to kill cookies for all accounts on a workstation:
for /D %%d in ("C:\Documents and Settings\*.*") do deltree /y "%%d\cookies\*.*"

i had the idea to copy the cookie out then copy the cookie back in but not for all users & have it return to the right spot

there is no except tab with either deltree or del that i could find

as always many thanks in advance

[InTheWayBoy]

I don't know how you could do it with a script, but there is a program called Disk Cleaner that is pretty handy. You can configure what it should clean, and you can specify certain cookies to keep. Then, you run the program like this:

diskcleaner.exe -preset

It's not quite that simple, but the point I'm getting at is it would be very simple to integrate that into a logon script. And it's small and doesn't need to be installed, just call it from the server.

[MAXIMUS2111-SPQR]

that lil util is kinda neat but wont do....
ill splain

win2k/xp

seperate profiles
each cookie starts with the name of the profile

example
username1@thecookieiwantokeep[2].txt
username2@thecookieiwantokeep[2].txt
username3@thecookieiwantokeep[2].txt
username4@thecookieiwantokeep[2].txt
username5@thecookieiwantokeep[2].txt

And the location is gonna be
c:\docs & settings\username1\cookies
c:\docs & settings\username2\cookies
c:\docs & settings\username3\cookies
c:\docs & settings\username4\cookies
c:\docs & settings\username5\cookies

this would be much easier if deltree or del had an exclude switch like xcopy does...but whatev

[shanff]

It's been a long time since i've used dos command line ( i prefer linux), but why don't you just modify your existing script a little bit by doing something like this:

for /D %%d in ("C:\Documents and Settings\*.*")
do
move %PATH%\username1@thecookieiwantokeep[2].txt ..\tempcookies\
deltree /y "%%d\cookies\*.*"
move %PATH%\tempcookies\*.* ..\tempcookies
...
whatever else you want to do...

...

Would that work out for you?

[CrashNBurn79]

Ok here's the best solution for what you are doing.
Download http://www.ccleaner.com/
It has settings in the program that will allow you to choose which cookies you want to keep. You can also set it up to delete all that stuff when you restart your computer. It works with firefox and IE so you shouldn't have any problems there.

Now was that so hard?

[VesaLB]

I tried this copying my CNN cookie out to the root of C and back again and it seemed to work.

@echo off
c:
cd\
cd %userprofile%
cd cookies
copy /y *.cnn[1].txt c:\
del /f /q *.*
copy /y c:\*.cnn[1].txt
exit

[Vip2]

This worked in my limited testing :

mkdir c:\Cookie
cd \Documents and Settings
for /D %%d in (".\*.*") do copy "%%d\cookies\%%d@webmin[2]" c:\Cookie\*.*
for /D %%d in (".\*.*") do rmdir /s/q "%%d\cookies"
for /D %%d in (".\*.*") do mkdir "%%d\Cookies"
for /D %%d in (".\*.*") do copy "c:\Cookie\%%d@webmin[2]" "%%d\cookies\*.*"
rmdir /s/q c:\Cookie


Sounds like you are asking this for use in a company. Remember to check the licenses if you decide to use one of those programs that were mentioned. Some are not free for use by a company.

[MAXIMUS2111-SPQR]

This worked in my limited testing :

mkdir c:\Cookie
cd \Documents and Settings
for /D %%d in (".\*.*") do copy "%%d\cookies\%%d@webmin[2]" c:\Cookie\*.*
for /D %%d in (".\*.*") do rmdir /s/q "%%d\cookies"
for /D %%d in (".\*.*") do mkdir "%%d\Cookies"
for /D %%d in (".\*.*") do copy "c:\Cookie\%%d@webmin[2]" "%%d\cookies\*.*"
rmdir /s/q c:\Cookie


Sounds like you are asking this for use in a company. Remember to check the licenses if you decide to use one of those programs that were mentioned. Some are not free for use by a company.

i tried this & it doesnt seem to work

what os? im trying to do this in xp pro

[Vip2]

i tried this & it doesnt seem to work

what os? im trying to do this in xp pro

Windows 2000.
Did they change that much in XP?
Are you using a ".CMD" file or a ".BAT"? It needs to be a ".CMD".
I do not have a XP installation at work so I cannot test it.

[MAXIMUS2111-SPQR]

aha that could be it right there
lemme give it a shot

[MAXIMUS2111-SPQR]

we got a winner jonny

thanks vip you rule