Popular recipes tagged "delete"

Directory Pruner 4 (Python)

2012-06-06T22:00:00-07:00

Python recipe 578154 by Stephen Chappell (delete, directory, file, gui, utility). Revision 2.

Module providing GUI capability to prune any directory.

The code presented in this module is for the purposes of: (1) ascertaining the space taken up by a directory, its files, its sub-directories, and its sub-files; (2) allowing for the removal of the sub-files, sub-directories, files, and directory found in the first purpose; (3) giving the user a GUI to accomplish said purposes in a convenient way that is easily accessible.

Windows Registry: Search & Destroy (Python)

2012-07-12T12:23:05-07:00

Python recipe 578209 by Stephen Chappell (archive, delete, old, search, windows_registry).

If you know that your registry has useless information in it and want to remove entries, this recipe was provide you with a simple way of accomplishing such a purpose. After entering strings to match and causing an EOF, the program will search for what you entered, and is designed to automatically delete what was requested. This is committed for archival to be run under Python 2.5 or later versions.

Directory Deleter (Python)

2011-07-27T15:23:29-07:00

Python recipe 577809 by mJack (delete, directories, directory).

This small program lets a user delete a directory on their Windows system. Also good for learning from.

Directory Pruner 2 (Python)

2011-04-05T01:37:14-07:00

Python recipe 577633 by Stephen Chappell (delete, directory, file, gui, utility).

This program builds on work done in recipe 577632, adds new options to the context menu, and experiments with threading the GUI. Directory Pruner 2 appear to work better on Windows 7 while Directory Pruner 1 (the non-threaded version) performs better on Windows XP. Those are the primary platforms on which the two programs have been tested. Please use these applications at your own risk.

If you do not like something about this recipe and want to vote it down, please let everyone what you find fault with, how you would improve it, and an example of the code you would improve.

Directory Pruner 1 (Python)

2011-04-05T00:56:25-07:00

Python recipe 577632 by Stephen Chappell (delete, directory, file, gui, utility).

This program is an extension of recipe 577567 in that it not only allows one to find a directory's size but also remove files based on a context menu. The directory pruner has been used by my roommate to free up room on his hard drive and also by several friends that wished to remove games and other unnecessary program that were taking up their space. Right-click on found directories to review your options.

If you wish to vote this recipe down, please post a comment at the bottom telling me how you would improve the utility.

Directory Pruner 3 (Python)

2011-04-05T23:15:58-07:00

Python recipe 577635 by Stephen Chappell (delete, directory, file, gui, utility).

After considering the monolithic design of recipe 577633 and deciding that it should be divided into several smaller modules, Directory Pruner 3 was written to take advantage of better abstraction methodologies. There are a total of twelve files in the project, and all of them except the first are contained within a directory called "Directory Pruner 3" such that they make up a package in Python. Like the other Directory Pruners, please use and configure this program at your own computer's risk.

If you have any comments or wish to vote this recipe down, please provide an explanation as to what you find fault with in this program and also a solution that you would implement to fix the problem.

Destroying Directories (Python)

2011-04-21T02:55:31-07:00

Python recipe 577670 by Stephen Chappell (delete, directory, recursion).

When files and directories need to be securely deleted, there are many tools in existence that people can turn to for their needs. While there are many ways one might go about manually deleting files and removing directories, this recipe provides a sample implementation of what may be considered throughout the process. This destructive command line program takes the path to a directory as a command line argument and does its best to render it and its contents unrecoverable. There are much better and inclusive applications than this one, but those wishing to write their own utilities may take some inspiration from this recipe while writing their own tools.

If there are any recommendation for this recipe or if anyone wishes to down-vote this recipe, please provide corrective criticism showing the the program's faults and give suggestions on how you would fix any problems that it might have.

Delete all message older than a given date in a pop account (Python)

2009-10-05T12:56:13-07:00

Python recipe 576922 by Benjamin Sergeant (delete, email, pop).

I was using the keep option in fetchmail, so I had a huge number of emails that seems to slow down mails retrieval / pop connection. I wanted a way to