<div dir="ltr">Thank you all so much for the great answers :)<div><br></div><div style>Since I posed the question I have been working out a solution. In the attached file I first send a message to [shell] to tell me how many files are in the folder. Then, since all the files are named "1.wav", "2.wav", etc., I run those numbers through a [list-drip] and tell [shell] to delete them one at a time. It ALMOST works I think, but it has an error that says "shell: old process still running"... Maybe [list-drip]'s consecutive messages are too fast? Maybe there is no time between the first kind of [shell] command and the second?</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Also, I'm a Macbook Pro (4 GB ram) user running 10.7.5 Lion.</div><div style><br></div><div style>I'd appreciate any help with my code. Like I said, I think I'm almost there, maybe my code needs a little tweaking.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Thank you,</div><div style>Sebastian</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 7:24 AM, Lorenzo Sutton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lorenzofsutton@gmail.com" target="_blank">lorenzofsutton@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi.<br>
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Just a small addition to the various answers<div class="im"><br>
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On 27/01/13 22:25, Sebastian Valenzuela wrote:<br>
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Hi list,<br>
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My Pd patch creates and saves new audio files to a designated folder on my desktop. I would like to have Pd delete these files every time I open my patch ([loadbang]).<br>
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I've heard the [shell] object is a possibility, but i'm not too keen on terminal commands or how they will pertain to [shell]...<br>
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It would be helpful if you specified on with Operating System you are, because [shell] is heavily OS dependent (I'm guessing Windows, but I may be wrong)<div class="im"><br>
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Can anyone please give me an example of a command I would send to [shell] to delete all files within a specified folder on my desktop? If this isn't the best way to do it, is there another possibility through Pd?<br>
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A different strategy might also be to actually *not* delete files from within Pd, but outside, befor or after you close your patch. This is easily accoplished e.g. by a script.<br>
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Also a suggestion would be to give the temporary files very eloquent names such as 'TEMP_FILE_TO_DELETE_0001.wav' etc. and (whichever way you decide to do it) delete specifically *those* files instead of e.g. the whole directory, so e.g. instead of:<br>
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rm -f ./dir_to_delete/*<br>
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something like<br>
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rm -f ./dir_to_delete/TEMP_FILE_TO_<u></u>DELETE_*.wav'<br>
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In my humble opinion it makes it more obvious what you want to delete, and (hopefully) less error/disaster prone (ok.. I've been bit by accidentally deleting files with no back up)<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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Lorenzo.<br>
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Thank you for your time,<br>
Sebastian<br>
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