Re: Auto Delete EmailCompleted Files
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It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 45654
interpreted = N
texte = wierd, I confirmed this with my code. could this be considered a bug? seems illogical to me.just to note, I tested brian's code with one modification. I have completed emails dating back to august. I decided that I would delete everything that is two months old or older. I changed 5 to 60. the result was that all my completed emails are gone (not a big deal as we have redundant backups as well as they are not needed).Any ideas?at any rate, now I have a clean completed emails folder and some new insight into the listfiles context. :-)cheers, DonovanBrian Fries wrote:[snip] The above script runs afoul of the dreaded delete while listing> conundrum, resulting in only every-other file being deleted. > > If you have 6 files, named a, b, c, d, e and f, then do a listfiles, > deleting each time through, you will delete file a on the first > pass, then file c on the second pass because c will now be the > second file in the list because a no longer exists. The third pass > will delete file e, leaving the three files b, d and f. > > My preferred way of dealing with this situation is to stick the names > of all the files to be deleted into a text variable, then, after the > [/listfiles], do a [listwords] on the file list to delete the listed > files. > > Also, a more portable way of accessing the EmailCompleted folder is > to go to the globals folder then back up a level. > > Here's my version - and I just tested it successfully on my server, > as I'd been meaning to do this anyway: > > [text]deletelist=[/text] > [text]completed=^../EmailCompleted/[/text] > [text]fivedaysago=[math]{[date]}-5[/math][/text] > [ListFiles path=[completed]] > [hideif [math]{[ModDate]}[/math]>[fivedaysago]] > [text]deletelist=[deletelist],[filename][/text] > [/hideif] > [/listfiles] > [listwords words=[url][deletelist][/url]&delimiters=,] > [DELETEFILE file=[completed][word]] > [/listwords] > > - brian > ---- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------<><> Donovan Brooke <><>->ï ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list
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wierd, I confirmed this with my code. could this be considered a bug? seems illogical to me.just to note, I tested brian's code with one modification. I have completed emails dating back to august. I decided that I would delete everything that is two months old or older. I changed 5 to 60. the result was that all my completed emails are gone (not a big deal as we have redundant backups as well as they are not needed).Any ideas?at any rate, now I have a clean completed emails folder and some new insight into the listfiles context. :-)cheers, DonovanBrian Fries wrote:[snip] The above script runs afoul of the dreaded delete while listing> conundrum, resulting in only every-other file being deleted. > > If you have 6 files, named a, b, c, d, e and f, then do a listfiles, > deleting each time through, you will delete file a on the first > pass, then file c on the second pass because c will now be the > second file in the list because a no longer exists. The third pass > will delete file e, leaving the three files b, d and f. > > My preferred way of dealing with this situation is to stick the names > of all the files to be deleted into a text variable, then, after the > [/listfiles], do a [listwords] on the file list to delete the listed > files. > > Also, a more portable way of accessing the EmailCompleted folder is > to go to the globals folder then back up a level. > > Here's my version - and I just tested it successfully on my server, > as I'd been meaning to do this anyway: > > [text]deletelist=[/text] > [text]completed=^../EmailCompleted/[/text] > [text]fivedaysago=[math]{[date]}-5[/math][/text] > [ListFiles path=[completed]] > [hideif [math]{[ModDate]}[/math]>[fivedaysago]] > [text]deletelist=[deletelist],[filename][/text] > [/hideif] > [/listfiles] > [listwords words=[url][deletelist][/url]&delimiters=,] > [DELETEFILE file=[completed][word]] > [/listwords] > > - brian > ---- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------<><> Donovan Brooke <><>->ï ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/
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