Delete all files owned by user

[David Clarke]

We are using Google Apps for Education to take exams in Google classroom.

We have created a few hundred "Exam accounts" that only have access to Google drive and Google Classroom.  The idea is that the teacher share out the exam questions via classroom then the kids write and then print out their tests.

What I am looking for is a way to clear out the exam account folders after each test.

I tried using:

gam user examacc...@domain.com delete drivefile "query:title='*.gdoc'" purge

gam user examacc...@domain.com delete drivefile "query:title='*" purge
gam user examacc...@domain.com delete drivefile "query:title=*.*'" purge

during testing all of the above come up with no files found even though there are various gdoc files in the folder

the best I could com up with was:

gam user examacc...@domain.com delete drivefile "query:mimeType='application/vnd.google-apps.document'" purge

This works for the most part as it will delete what 'Should" be in their folder, but students being students will sometimes create extra folders or oddly named documents, that the above doesn't catch.

Are there any wildcards that I can use to delete all files in these accounts?

Thanks

[Graham Ingleby]

Hi David

Could you do a query based on the owner? "'examacc...@domain.com' in owners" would seem to do it

Or modified date "modifiedTime < '2200-01-01T12:00:00'" (modified before 1st Jan 2100)

Failing that you have the command to print all a users files to a CSV https://github.com/jay0lee/GAM/wiki/GoogleDriveManagement#managing-google-drive-files-and-folders-for-users, you could then use the CSV to delete each file

Graham

 

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