Delete files

Description

The Delete files action deletes a set of specified files, optionally with subfolders.

Options

Option	Description
Action name	The name of the workflow action.
Include Subfolders	Also delete the matching files in the subfolders of a folder. Folders are never deleted.
Copy previous results to args	Take the files and folders to delete from the result rows of a previous action: the path in the first field and the wildcard in the second. See Result.
File/Folder	The file or folder to delete
Wildcard	The regular expression matching files to delete if the previous option is a folder. For example to delete all files ending in .dat, the regular expression would be ".*\.dat$".
Files/Folders	The complete list of files/folders to delete

Option

Description

Action name

The name of the workflow action.

Include Subfolders

Also delete the matching files in the subfolders of a folder. Folders are never deleted.

Copy previous results to args

Take the files and folders to delete from the result rows of a previous action: the path in the first field and the wildcard in the second. See Result.

File/Folder

The file or folder to delete

Wildcard

The regular expression matching files to delete if the previous option is a folder. For example to delete all files ending in .dat, the regular expression would be ".*\.dat$".

Files/Folders

The complete list of files/folders to delete

Result

What this action passes on to the next action. See Action results for how results travel through a workflow.

Result	Value
True	Every file and folder in the list was processed. A path that doesn’t exist counts as already deleted. For a single file the wildcard is not used.
False	A file could not be deleted. The number of errors is the number of entries in the list that failed.
Result files	Passed on unchanged. The deleted files are not added.
Result rows	Passed on unchanged. With Copy previous results to args, the action takes the path from the first field and the wildcard from the second field of each result row, and ignores the list in the dialog, also when there are no result rows. A row with fewer than two fields stops the action: the remaining rows are not processed, and the action is still true.

Result

Value

True

Every file and folder in the list was processed. A path that doesn’t exist counts as already deleted. For a single file the wildcard is not used.

False

A file could not be deleted. The number of errors is the number of entries in the list that failed.

Result files

Passed on unchanged. The deleted files are not added.

Result rows

Passed on unchanged. With Copy previous results to args, the action takes the path from the first field and the wildcard from the second field of each result row, and ignores the list in the dialog, also when there are no result rows. A row with fewer than two fields stops the action: the remaining rows are not processed, and the action is still true.

An invalid regular expression in Wildcard deletes nothing, and the action is still true.