Powershell script to delete folders under Winx

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Powershell script to delete folders under Winx

Santhosh B S 106

Team,

I am looking for a script which should delete folders under C:\Users\BRXXXX\Appdata\Local\Micorsoft\Windows\winx\GROUP2 and GROUP3

and i need to retain the folders under winx for Administrator, defaultuser ,Default ,Public

Please help

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Tushar Kumar 3,381 MVP

$foldersToDelete = @(
    "C:\Users\BRXXXX\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\winx\GROUP2",
    "C:\Users\BRXXXX\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\winx\GROUP3"
)

foreach ($folderPath in $foldersToDelete) {
    if (Test-Path $folderPath -PathType Container) {
        Write-Host "Deleting folder: $folderPath"
        Remove-Item -Path $folderPath -Force -Recurse
    } else {
        Write-Host "Folder not found: $folderPath"
    }
}

MotoX80 37,161

He probably doesn't know the XXXX part of the name.


$foldersToDelete = @()
Get-ChildItem -path c:\users -filter "BR*" | foreach {
    $foldersToDelete += $_.fullname + "\Appdata\Local\Micorsoft\Windows\winx\GROUP2"
    $foldersToDelete += $_.fullname + "\Appdata\Local\Micorsoft\Windows\winx\GROUP3"
}

Santhosh Basavarajappa 0 Reputation points

2023-06-07T07:19:03.2166667+00:00

Thanks Tushar and MotoX80 for the script.

Yes as mentioned by MotoX80, i have many users whose login ID starts with BRXXXX (X is 4 digit numbers). Your script is deleting for one users.

@MotoX80, I checked your script and its not working. Can I have complete script which can be used to delete multiple users.
MotoX80 37,161 Reputation points

2023-06-07T12:39:57.65+00:00
I checked your script and its not working.

What error do you get? Are you running the script with "Run as Administrator"? Does it populate the $foldersToDelete variable?

Does this command list your users?

Get-ChildItem -path c:\users -filter "BR*"
Santhosh Basavarajappa 0 Reputation points

2023-06-08T08:17:17.9733333+00:00

Please find the screenshot. It wont pop up any screen post running the script. Yes, i am running powershell as admin.

I am planning to run the script using SCCM. Group_Folder.jpg
MotoX80 37,161 Reputation points

2023-06-08T10:52:28.01+00:00
In the script that Tushar posed, he hardcoded the folder names into the $foldersToDelete variable. The next part of his script processed the folder names that were in that variable.

All I did was to show a code snippet that looked at the users folder and built the $foldersToDelete variable dynamically based on the folder contents.

In the image that you posted, all I see is my code that builds the $foldersToDelete variable.

Where is the code that processes the folder names? You have to add in the rest of Tushar's script if you want the script to actually do something with the folder names.

$foldersToDelete = @() Get-ChildItem -path c:\users -filter "BR*" | foreach { $foldersToDelete += $_.fullname + "\Appdata\Local\Micorsoft\Windows\winx\GROUP2" $foldersToDelete += $_.fullname + "\Appdata\Local\Micorsoft\Windows\winx\GROUP3" } foreach ($folderPath in $foldersToDelete) { if (Test-Path $folderPath -PathType Container) { Write-Host "Deleting folder: $folderPath" Remove-Item -Path $folderPath -Force -Recurse } else { Write-Host "Folder not found: $folderPath" } }
Santhosh Basavarajappa 0 Reputation points

2023-06-09T10:32:34.17+00:00

I executed the above script and i get below error but folder exists
MotoX80 37,161 Reputation points

2023-06-09T11:45:47.38+00:00

I misspelled Microsoft. The script has Micorsoft, the o and r need swapped.

You have it misspelled in your initial question. I must have copied that.

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