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October 21, 2013 - 4:17pm
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darksabre76
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DirectoryCleanupForce with wildcard

I'm currently working on a program that creates a partial-randomly named directory to work with and then leaves it there after runtime. I assume it's being used as a temporary file storage location, but that is inconsequential because I want to remove it. Unfortunately, DirectoryCleanupForce doesn't seem to work with wildcards. Is there a way of getting rid of these directories? Or will I have to resort to using NSIS scripting? Below is the exact code I have written in the launcher.ini file.

[DirectoriesCleanupForce]
1=%USERPROFILE%\.asy
2=%PAL:AppDir%\asy\asy_*

Thanks in advance.

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October 24, 2013 - 8:59am
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Custom.nsh

it's been a while since i've made a portableapp..
but if i recall correctly..
you have to use "FindFirst", or "ForEach" with wildcards...

- are the directories empty?
if so.. you can use locate plugin.
ie. locate::RMDirEmpty.

if not..
- create a file called "Custom.nsh" w/following content:


!define FindFirstDelete `!insertmacro FindFirstDelete`
!macro FindFirstDelete _PATH _NAME
     FindFirst $R0 $R1 `${_PATH}\${_NAME}`
       ${DoWhile} $R1 != ""
       RMDir /r `${_PATH}\$R1`
     FindNext $R0 $R1
       ${Loop}
     FindClose $R0
!macroend

${SegmentFile}
${SegmentPostPrimary}
     ${FindFirstDelete} `$PROFILE` `.asy*`
     ; uncomment if you're positive it's necessary to delete folder below.
     ;${FindFirstDelete} `$AppDirectory\asy` `*asy`
!macroend

NOTE: i wouldn't worry about folders inside the app. directory.

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October 24, 2013 - 3:36pm
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Thanks

I was hoping for something in the launcher, but that NSIS script looks like it'll do the trick. Thanks for the code and advice. I'll try it out.

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