How to Delete Batch Files of a Folder but Not Subfolders
It's pretty much everything in the title, really. I do have a 'root' folder with a lot of documents in it, and I want to empty it every evening, but I don't wish to destroy the subfolders it contains.
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Dany· Answered on Mar 09, 2023
Although it's not difficult to create a folder and subfolders, you definitely don't want to do so until you really have to if you already have a complicated directory structure that took effort to design. You can fairly quickly replicate a folder structure while ignoring the files within, but you may also choose to remove all the files from a folder while keeping the subfolder structure you've built. You are free to choose between the two approaches. This guide will show you how to use straightforward CMD command lines to remove files while keeping directories.
Unless you're deleting data from the root of the C disk, you don't require administrator access for this. You need to boot Command Prompt Windows 10 and type in del *.* /s /q. It is a simple command, isn't it? All files in this folder will be deleted, and subfolders within it will be contained by this command. Make sure you first make a backup of the files because the delete operation does not send the contents to the Recycle bin.
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