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Re: FolderItem.delete Oddities?

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Subject: Re: FolderItem.delete Oddities?
From: Kimball Larsen <kimball@kimballlarsen.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:28:08 -0600
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Except that item() is a 1-based array, so you need to use item(1).

Oh, and I changed it to use a while loop instead of a for:

  dim f as FolderItem = specialFolder.Temporary.child("ah")
  dim f2 as folderItem
  dim i as integer
  while f.count > 0
    f2 = f.item(1)
    f2.Delete
  wend
  f.delete

Works fine now, thanks!


- Kimball
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On Mar 31, 2009, at 12:15 PM, Andy Dent wrote:


On 01/04/2009, at 2:09 AM, Kimball Larsen wrote:

Has anyone noticed any problem with folderitem.delete where it deletes some files, but not others?

Here's the background: I'm trying to empty a directory that I created to hold some temporary images. Here is the code I'm using to delete:

dim f as FolderItem = specialFolder.Temporary.child("ah")
dim f2 as folderItem
dim i as integer
for i = 1 to f.Count
  f2 = f.item(i)
use item(0) here always, not item(i)

You want to delete f.Count files. As you delete them, the effect of the item call changes.


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