[PD] Solution for deleting files via pd?

[José Rafael Subía Valdez]

How about creating a new folder each time you open so the last one could be
deleted... there is this external done by a colleague of mine.. it builds
perfect in OSX 10.6.8

http://puredata.info/Members/estebancalcagno/CreateFolder/view?searchterm=createfolder
<http://puredata.info/Members/estebancalcagno/CreateFolder/view?searchterm=createfolder>

just an idea


On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 1:52 PM, Sebastian Valenzuela <
svalenzuelamusic at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you all so much for the great answers :)
>
> 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?
>
> Also, I'm a Macbook Pro (4 GB ram) user running 10.7.5 Lion.
>
> I'd appreciate any help with my code. Like I said, I think I'm almost
> there, maybe my code needs a little tweaking.
>
> Thank you,
> Sebastian
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 7:24 AM, Lorenzo Sutton <lorenzofsutton at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi.
>>
>> Just a small addition to the various answers
>>
>>
>> On 27/01/13 22:25, Sebastian Valenzuela wrote:
>>
>>> Hi list,
>>>
>>> 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]).
>>>
>>> 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]...
>>>
>> 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)
>>
>>
>>> 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?
>>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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:
>>
>> rm -f ./dir_to_delete/*
>>
>> something like
>>
>> rm -f ./dir_to_delete/TEMP_FILE_TO_**DELETE_*.wav'
>>
>> 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)
>>
>> Lorenzo.
>>
>>>
>>> Thank you for your time,
>>> Sebastian
>>>
>>>
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