How To Delete Maaaany Things At Once

Byeka

<div class="IPBDescription">some things in a folder but not all!</div> I made a 3.0 lerk flight demo and to do it you have to use the startmovie command which basically takes tons of screenshots and puts them in your HL folder. So is there anyway to delete just these screenshots and not the other stuff in the folder, cause I got over 1000 screenshots to delete now and it's going to take a long time if i have to highlight and right click like 20 at once.

Boy_who_lost_his_wings

uhh hit the delete key?

Wolf_Kahler

Hold down Ctrl and left click each file you want to delete. Then hit the Delete key.

If you've got room between the file icons, you can hold Ctrl, left-click in an empty space on the screen [hold the button down] and drag a selection box around a group of files.

You'll need to experiment. Depending what folder view you're using the dragged selection can select things in a seemingly random manner.

Byeka

Um yes sure... what I'm asking is is their anyway to select all the screenshot files and delete only those in the folder but leave all the other stuff untouched.

Over 1000 screenshots here to delete.

EDIT: This is to first reply

GreyPaws

sort by name, click the first file, scroll all the way down to the last file, hold left shift and click it, they will all be highlighted <sp> press del

twoflow

I take it the filename of each one starts out similar? Like image0001, image0002, image0003 etc? Just search for image* using Start -> Search -> For files or folders, then Edit -> Select all, then delete.

Wolf_Kahler

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Uuuhhh delete your attitude?

Not everybody knows everything about computers. Some people are actually in the learning stage.

OH, MY GODZORZ!!! THE NUBZORZ ARE ATTACKING!!!

So what? Somebody had to teach you too.

Zel

uh huh,

view->details

click on type to sort by file extention, scroll to the bmps. click and drag so theyre all selected and pounce on the DEL key.

Boy_who_lost_his_wings

if you dotn know how to freaking sort files,drag your mouse over files, and hit the delete key, its a wonder you can do anything with computers

Hand_Me_The_Gun_And_Ask_Me_Again

You're all utterly hopeless.

Start up a command prompt (Run, then 'command' or perhaps 'cmd32' or whatever it is in NT-style systems including XP).

Change to your Half-Life directory. In my case, it's 'cd \Half-Life'.

Delete appropriate files. If, say, you took loads of shots on ns_bumfluff, you'd type 'del ns_bumfluff*.bmp'. The asterisk acts as a wildcard, matching everything, and the bits of filename provided restrict it a bit. For example, '*.bmp' would be all BMP images; 'hl.*' would be all files starting with 'hl', regardless of the extension. I suggest you <i>don't</i> try that in your Half-Life directory.

That's it.

DOOManiac

1) open command prompt
2) cd\half-life (or whatever)
3) del *.bmp

simple & fast.

/me hugs DOS Prompt

Zig

in windows explorer, you can CTRL+A to select all files in the directory

and then while holding control, click or highlight selected files to DEselect them. easy.

OttoDestruct

Press window key + e. Browse to HL directory. Click first screenshot on list. Hold shift. Use bar on right to scroll down to bottom of list while still holding shift. Click last screenshot. Press delete key. Click yes. GG.

Umbraed_Monkey

Im surprised that noone said 'format c:' yet <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->

Xiile

Just go View -> List and then hold down your left mouse button and select all the .bmp / .jpg screenshots. Thats what I do.

cshank4

Right Clikc, Sort by, Type. click top right one, hold shift click bottom left one hit delete. Easy 1 2 3 no?