Deleting files in a smart folder

If I delete a file in a smart folder, does it delete it from the 'puter or just the smart folder?
(after 6 years, I finally looked at smart folders. They are quite nice, but allow for the bad habit of not organizing correctly)

Deleting a file in a smart folder moves it to the Trash.
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If i delete a file from a smart folder is it deleted from the hard drive?

I've got a late 2011 17" MacBook Pro with a 750 GB harddrive. I'm trying to free up space by deleting movie files. I spoke with tech support about this, and they suggested creating a smart folder of all my movie files in order to find them and delte them. I did this and deleted many files, but when I open system information to check on the amount of hard drive space, I'm still seeing the same amount of hard drive space dedicated to movies.
If I make a smart folder and delete files in that, am I really deleting them from my hard drive or just from the smart folder?

What files are stored automatically by Time Machine? I thought Time Machine pretty much saved everything on my hard drive to my external hard drive. If that is the case, wouldn't my music files and picture files be on Time Machine (via my external hard drive)?
Time Machine does backup almost all files on your hard drive, unless you have chosen to exclude them. There are a few exceptions, but nothing you should worry about. Your music and photos should be there, but Time Machine will not backup your iPhoto library if iPhoto is open.
Also, are the photos from iPhoto automatically stored on my external hard drive via Time Machine? If so, can I delete the pictures from iPhoto without deleting them from the external hard drive?
Yes to both questions, with the above cavat that Time Machine won't backup the library if iPhoto is open.
I notice that it takes iPhoto quite a while to load, and if deleting those photos would allow it to load quicker I would delete them (providing they would remain on the external hard drive.
I only have a few pictures in iPhoto, compared to my wife's 3,500+, and my iPhoto doesn't load appreciably faster that her's does even though I have a faster computer. In my opinion, it isn't worth the effort it would take to delete them for such a small gain.
You should have at least 2 complete backups to try to make sure you won't lose any data. Hard drives do fail and/or files can become corrupted. Time Machine can back up to more than one external hard drive or you can use a cloning program.
Time Machine FAQ

Delete file from an FTP folder

Hi expert,
I wanna know if it's possible delete with abap command a file from a FTP folder.
I mean, there is a ftp folder periodically filled with excel files. An ABAP program read this folder and the files content must be moved in a SAP Table. Aftre this, I must delete excel files with an abap command write in the same abap program.
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1) read directory with fm EPS_GET_DIRECTORY_LISTING
2) process table dir_list
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How do I remove or delete files within a document folder? I have tried dragging the files to the trash and it does not work

How do I remove or delete files and image files within a document foler? I have tried dragging the files to the trash, but that is not working.

Right-click (or ctrl-click) on a file. If the "move to Trash" option is greyed out, select "get info" and read the permissions at the bottom of the info window.
Wat are they?
Do the same for the enclosing folder - what permissions does that have?

Delete files in /lib/ext folder

I have an applet that used to install and use a third-party jar in /lib/ext. The jar is recently got upgraded but I have problem deploying the new jar file. Because the file is in /lib/ext, it is always loaded and used by JRE, I can't delete the file in code (it is locked). And because it is loaded by the system classloader which has the higher priority, custom classloader does not work either. Is there any way that I can deploy the new jar file without asking all user to manually delete the old jar from /ext/lib folder before running the applet?
Thanks in advance!!
Jack
Edited by: suyuchieh on Jul 5, 2008 9:11 PM
Edited by: suyuchieh on Jul 5, 2008 9:12 PM

suyuchieh wrote:
Yes, I agree that the jar should not be installed in that folder from the beginning (the applet had code to copy the jar to that folder whenever it is not there). There may be some historical reason but it is a problem now~As you've already noted, you can't while the applet itself is running, and you shouldn't be able to anyway. That would be a pretty lax security policy that allowed an Applet to write anywhere in the jdk/jre directories.
Include a notice on the site that, if they have not already done so, that they should close the site, remove the jar, and then reconnect.

Cannot delete files from Mail Junk folder

I have an issue with Mail. I have two messages without content that cannot be deleted from the Junk folder. I can change the classification (junk to not junk); try to move them to another folder, but nothing works. This problem is unique to my MacBook Air -- I have the same programs and files on my office MacBook Pro and there is no issue -- I was able to delete the same files without an issue.

I am running mac 10.6.7
I have tried updating the software, operating system,
Then you should have Mac OS X 10.6.8

Copy files to Smart Folder

I have created a Smart Folder but cannot drag/drop files to that Smart Folder.
What am I doing wrong?

A Smart Folder is not a place, it's a list. It's the answer to question. For instance: What files were modified yesterday? Or what files have a 'work' comment in the Spotlight Comments? To get a file listed in a Smart Folder make sure it fits the answer to the question...

Delete File From Mounted Volume

Hey,
I am trying to delete the "Calendar Cache" files on both my laptop PowerBook G4 and the Mac Pro Quad that I sync my calendars with. I am using ChronoSync and the individual calendars sync fine, but there is a little house keeping needed with the cache file. They need to be deleted on both systems in order to "refresh" the views of the calendars.
So after the sync of calendars, I have the software initiating an AppleScript that deletes both. Here's the script:
+(* PowerBook Files / delete cache file *)+
+(* Please note that both systems have the same username. This may be arise a conflict *)+
+tell application "Finder"+
+ activate+
+ tell application "Finder" to delete file "Calendar Cache" of folder "Calendars" of folder "Library" of disk "useranthony"+
+end tell+
+(* Mac Pro Quad/ delete cache file *)+
+tell application "Finder"+
+ mount volume "afp://10.10.10.1/anthonyabraira"+
+ tell application "Finder" to delete file "Calendar Cache" of folder "Calendars" of folder "Library" of disk "/volumes/useranthony"+
+end tell+
I am having trouble addressing a deletion on the networked Mac Pro Quad.

why send it to the trash just delete it...
(* PowerBook Files / delete cache file )
try
do shell script "rm -rf /Library/Calendars/Calendar\\ Cache"
end try
you may need a delay for the Mac Pro Quad to mount
( Mac Pro Quad/ delete cache file *)
--the mount and then the delay
delay 4
try
do shell script "rm -rf /THE-CORRECT/PATH-HERE/Library/Calendars/Calendar\\ Cache"
end try
Tom

Populating Smart Folder - Bug?

There seems to have been a change in the way smart folders are populated in Snow Leopard. I like to keep a smart folder called "All Today". It is a great troubleshooting tool. For example, there is currently a Snow Leopard bug in using your mouse to select Expose "Show Desktop". With this smart folder, I can change the Expose settings and quickly see that com.apple.symbolichotkeys.plist is the possible problem file.
Unfortunately, Snow Leopard is not populating an realtime smart folder very elegantly. One has to open the smart folder, show search criteria, and toggle search locations to properly populate the folder.
For example, here is an "All Today" search criteria:
Create a new Smart Folder w/ search conditions as follows:
Kind = Any
System Files = Are Included
(Option+) ANY of the following are TRUE
- Last Opened Date = Today
- Last Modified Date = Today
Save the folder
Close finder and open the folder. You will see that the folder is not properly populated. Now, open "Show Search Criteria" and toggle Search location at the top. Now correctly populated. It is a nuisance to have to drop down the menu to show the search criteria and then toggle. This was not the case in Leopard.
Can anyone think of a work around?

Hi all,
I've a similar issue. If you create a smart folder with time based criteria it won't get populated correctly.
Say you have a criteria "last opened" in "one week"
It works as soon as you create the folder but if you open a file after the smart folder was created the new file won't be seen in the smart folder.
Cheers,
Marco

Deleted file wont show in the trash

Hi, i'm new to Arch and english is not my native, so please bear with me
I've installed Arch with Gnome 3 into my ThinkPad T520 with following configuration:
SSD formatted partitionless with btrfs filesystem.
I created 10 subvolume to organize my files.
mount /dev/sda /mnt/hdd
btrfs subvol list /mnt/hdd
ID 260 gen 2317 top level 5 path _snapshots
ID 263 gen 3757 top level 5 path _arch
ID 264 gen 3757 top level 5 path _home
ID 281 gen 3491 top level 5 path _documents
ID 283 gen 3538 top level 5 path _vms
ID 284 gen 3293 top level 5 path _tugas_sd
ID 285 gen 3158 top level 5 path _pictures
ID 286 gen 3683 top level 5 path _music
ID 287 gen 3224 top level 5 path _videos
ID 288 gen 3506 top level 5 path _software
ID 430 gen 2338 top level 5 path _snapshots/arch-2014-04-05
Then mount that sobvolumes to directory inside my /home
cat /etc/fstab
# UUID=19ba2e27-6f2a-4410-a7ee-00c36f8bfa15 LABEL=arch
UUID=19ba2e27-6f2a-4410-a7ee-00c36f8bfa15 / btrfs rw,relatime,compress=lzo,ssd,space_cache,autodefrag,inode_cache,subvol=_arch 0 0
UUID=19ba2e27-6f2a-4410-a7ee-00c36f8bfa15 /home btrfs rw,relatime,compress=lzo,ssd,space_cache,autodefrag,inode_cache,subvol=_home 0 0
UUID=19ba2e27-6f2a-4410-a7ee-00c36f8bfa15 /home/iza/Documents btrfs defaults,subvol=_documents 0 0
UUID=19ba2e27-6f2a-4410-a7ee-00c36f8bfa15 /home/iza/Music btrfs defaults,subvol=_music 0 0
UUID=19ba2e27-6f2a-4410-a7ee-00c36f8bfa15 /home/iza/Pictures btrfs defaults,subvol=_pictures 0 0
UUID=19ba2e27-6f2a-4410-a7ee-00c36f8bfa15 /home/iza/Software btrfs defaults,subvol=_software 0 0
UUID=19ba2e27-6f2a-4410-a7ee-00c36f8bfa15 /home/iza/Tugas\040SD btrfs defaults,subvol=_tugas_sd 0 0
UUID=19ba2e27-6f2a-4410-a7ee-00c36f8bfa15 /home/iza/Videos btrfs defaults,subvol=_videos 0 0
UUID=19ba2e27-6f2a-4410-a7ee-00c36f8bfa15 /home/iza/VMs btrfs defaults,subvol=_vms 0 0
All nice and well, except one thing. When i delete files originally locate in subvolumes but mounted to my /home, the files gone but not showing in the trash.
Instead, deleted files moved to hidden folder named .Trash-1000.
If that sound confussing, let me give an example, when i delete file from /home/iza then that file gone and showing up in the trash. But, when i delete a file from /home/iza/Documents then that file is gone but not showing in the trash but moved to /home/iza/Documents/.Trash-1000.
Is this a bug in btrfs or because my messy mountpoint/fstab?
Thanx

If you delete a file on a different partition; a .Trash-1000 (where the last part is your userid) directory is created (in the root of the partition); it will contain the file. Gnome should apparently traverse all partitions to merge all these files and show them in the 'Trash'; somehow that doesn't work. Can you check if a .Trash-1000 folder exists on all partitions you created? If they do, the problem is in Gnome not properly populating them.
The same issue is described here, without a solution unfortunately: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=40580 and http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=785512
Last edited by Spider.007 (2014-04-06 11:29:25)

How to view and or delete smart folder in finder sidebar

Sounds easy, but I am having a problem. I recently had my hard drive replaced at the genius bar. I have a smart File on the finder side bar that I can not open or delete. When I click on the file I get the message "the volume for (name of file) cannot be found. I tried using both "spotlight" & "the finder go to" locate this smart folder to no avail. I cannot remember when I created this file but I had labeled it appleworks 6 manual.. I don't ever remember using this smart file, I may have just created it without ever putting anything in it. So how do I open it or just plain delete it. I can remove it from the side board but it just comes back. I also went to /volumes which took me to the hard drive, but when I looked at all the files I couldn't find a smart file with this label. Any suggestion? Thanks Paula

I made another smart folder. I wanted to see if I could get the options with the control key. My test folder worked fine and I was able to get the options. I could delete the test folder without any problems. If it is that I have an Appleworks manual stored in an image file, then how could I find the image file? And if I did find it, what would I do to it, so I could delete this smart folder that I set up? I did a spotlight search for image file, but I couldn't find anything. I also searched appleworks manual and I did find a "getting started with appleworks 6 document" with an path of '/application/appleworks (U.S. English) Applework 6 documentation ... when I click on it it opens in preview.. but that manual is stored in my appleworks in applications, so I don't think it is related to the smart folder in the finder sidebar. If I did manage to close or delete the image file that was related to this folder, does that mean I'm just stick with this smart folder that I can't delete on my finder sidebar?

Address Book - smart folder - need to delete

I have created a smart folder that for some reson lock up my Address Book when ever I click on it (applicaton not responding and have to force quit). How can I delete the the smart folder in question. If I click on it the program immediately freezes.
I do have several days of time machine backups I could retore from. I am also synced to mobil me and my iphone.
What and where is the file I would need to replace to remove the last added smart folder?
Thanks,

You might want to try:
Back up your address book (File -> Export)
exiting the Address Book
Going to your Library/Application Support/AddressBook directory (in Finder, Go -> Go to folder -> ~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook
Moving the AddressBook-v22 to your desktop
Open the Metadata directory
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Restart Address Book
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Cannot delete file from shared folder

While I was looking for another file in my shared folder, I discovered a jpg file named shannonhenry.jpg. All it appears to be is a school photo of a boy, maybe 14 or so. I tried to move it to trash to delete it because I do not know who this kid is, and I got an error message saying that I do not have sufficient priviledges. Anyone know what this file is or could be????

Well Kelley, that photo did not come with the system so it had to come from you or someone else putting in the Shared folder.
Choose the file and "get info" (command- i) turn the dislclosure triangle on "Ownership & Permissions" make sure you can "read & write" and make yourself the "owner"(open the lock and enter your admin password).
Then check under General, turn the disclosure triangle and be sure the "locked" box in NOT checked.
Let us know.
-mj
[email protected]

Hi,delete file from folder?

hi,i am deleting file from folder as follwos
<%@ page import="java.io.File" %>
<%
File myFile = new File("D:\\jakarta-tomcat-4.1.18\\webapps\\ROOT\\upload_files\\xyz.txt");
myFile.delete();
%>
i am sucessfuly deleted file from above path.
if i use follwing code i unable to delete my file, can one help,
how to do it,
<%@ page import="java.io.File" %>
<%
String fname="xyz.txt";
File myFile = new File("D:\\jakarta-tomcat-4.1.18\\webapps\\ROOT\\upload_files\\'"+fname+"'");
myFile.delete();
%>
thanks
pullareddy

i think if above doesn't work try this it should work
change this line
File myFile = new File("D:\\jakarta-tomcat-4.1.18\\webapps\\ROOT\\upload_files\\'"+fname+"'");
to this
File myFile = new File("D:\\jakarta-tomcat-4.1.18\\webapps\\ROOT\\upload_files\\"+fname);

Delete file from folder only (not from list)

Hi all,
I've searched a lot and didn't succeed so far, that's why I need your help. In a cloud context, I'm actually creating and uploading files (pdf and/or xml files) "on the go" to sharepoint folders via the SOAP API and this is perfectly working. But
in a cloud context, I also need to decomission services which is translated into deleting files into Sharepoint.
That's where it became complicated, because according to the API we cannot delete files if they are not part of a list structure, which is not my case. Is that true ?
The only info I have when trying to delete a file via the SOAP Api is : its name, its folder, and the endpoint where the folder is. So my question remains simple I guess : is this possible ? If so, how to (a link to the SOAP body would be usefull)
Thanks a lot
Regards
Baptiste

Hi,
According to your post, my understanding is that you want to delete file from folder.
In SharePoint 2010, It is recommended to use Client Object Model to achieve it, the following code snippet for your reference:
string siteURL = "http://siteurl";
ClientContext context = new ClientContext(siteURL);
//specific user
NetworkCredential credentials = new NetworkCredential("username", "password", "domain");
context.Credentials = credentials;
Web web = context.Web;
context.Load(web);
context.ExecuteQuery();
string relativeUrl =web.ServerRelativeUrl +"/DocumentLibraryName/FolderName/FileName";
File file = web.GetFileByServerRelativeUrl(relativeUrl);
context.Load(file);
file.DeleteObject();
context.ExecuteQuery();
If you still want to use SOAP API, we can use the UpdateListItems method under Lists web service to achieve it.
http://www.dhirendrayadav.com/2010/06/delete-list-items-using-web-service.html
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sharepoint/en-US/61466984-1844-48a1-8c1e-1c59a0f9876a/move-and-delete-files-remotely-using-sharepoint-web-services-?forum=sharepointdevelopmentlegacy
Thanks,
Dennis Guo
TechNet Community Support
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