After being plagued with hundreds of OICE_15_XXXXXXX folders and the pain in the arse to get rid of them I have decided to make my life a tad easier today.
I have seen these folders being created under AppData in the roaming profiles of users, they get copied up and down as the user logs on and off and ultimately end up causing the roaming profiles not to sync as they are over quota.
I can’t add them to folder exclusions as they are all different and I can’t find a way to move them or stop them being created. We have to delete them as and when we come across them and they are not always easy to delete as some of the file are dot files and windows says it’s not there when you try and delete it! WTF FFS
I normally browse to the folder, shift right click and select `Open Command windows here‘, go into each folder and delete the dot files, then delete the folders. But it takes for bloody ever as I have to do that on the computers and on the server where the OICE_15 folders are.
To make life easier I have added an extra context menu to the right click menu for folders called `KillDOTFiles`
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTFoldershellkilldotfile]
@="KillDOTFile"
"Icon"=""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTFoldershellkilldotfilecommand]
@=""C:\Windowskilldotfile.bat" %1"
Created a batch file that had the following contents
for %%a in (%1) do set temp=%%~nxa
set OICEDir=%temp:~0,4%
if /I NOT %OICEDir% == OICE (
rem echo No
) ELSE (
rem echo Yes
del %1*.* /q /f
rd %1 /s /q
)
Now all I need to do is highlight the folders, right click and they get deleted.
Ive added a bit of checking to the batch file, as if I give the file to anyone else i do not want to be held liable if they delete the wrong directory! It will happen!!
Why did I not think of doing this before?