Can't delete non-empty folders #788
Description
Hey folks,
I've created an item that removes all temporary/auto-generated folders inside dev-projects, but the problem is, that it only removes the folders if they are empty.
I have tried various things, each of them only working on files and non-empty folders, but failing once a folder contains at least one item.
I'm on Windows 11 if that's relevant.
This was my first approach (I abbreviated the items list with <...>):
item(title="Clean Project" image=\uE0CE admin cmd={
$items = [
"__pycache__",
".cargo",
"node_modules",
<...>
]
for(i=0, i<len(items)) {
$currPath = path.join(sel.curdir, items[i])
io.delete(currPath)
}
command.refresh
})Then based on a code snipped by RubicBG I created this alternative approach using PowerShell:
item(title="Clean Project" image=\uE0CE commands {
admin cmd-ps=`Remove-Item -Path "@sel.curdir/__pycache__",
"@sel.curdir/.cargo",
<...>
-Recurse -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue`
window='hidden' wait=1
})This approach works when running it manually in a PowerShell window, but not via NSS (though it does prompt whether or not to remove nested files when the -Recurse flag isn't set).
When asking Perplexity AI, it came up with this approach:
$currPath = path.join(sel.curdir, "node_modules")
cmd("cmd.exe /c rmdir /s /q \"" + currPath + "\"")I tried all these variants with and without the 'admin' flag and with only one item instead of iterating through an array, but still the same issue.
I also looked into creating a recursive function to remove all nested items manually, but NSS doesn't seem to allow for creating custom functions.
Maybe one of you could have a look at it or try it yourself. Could be a problem with my system or a bug in NSS.
It would also be helpful if the io.delete function would have a recursive parameter (similar to io.copy).