Delete files but leave folders?

[Ian Crew]

Hi all:

Two related questions:

1) For a given myDrive folder (e.g. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B07qASDFGHJKLL), how might I go about listing (first) and later deleting all files within that folder tree, leaving the folders intact?

2) For a given myDrive folder tree, how might I go about listing (first) and later deleting all items (files and folders) within that folder that are no longer shared with anyone?

I started to get into a command something like the following, but that seemed really complex, and requesting a whole lot of columns only to throw them away again with the csv_output_header_filter and csv_output_header_drop_filter commands, so maybe that's not the right way to do it?

gam config csv_output_header_filter "id,parents.0.id,permissions,path.0" csv_output_header_drop_filter "permissions." redirect csv - user ic...@berkeley.edu print filelist query "mimeType='application/vnd.google-apps.folder'" fullpath excludetrashed stripcrsfromname allfields

Thanks!

Ian

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Ian Crew

Architect, Communication and Collaboration Services
Productivity & Collaboration Services
Berkeley IT

University of California, Berkeley

[Ross Scroggs]

Ian,

1) Delete all files within a folder structure

gam redirect csv ./FolderFileList.csv user us...@domain.com print filelist select 0B07qASDFGHJKLL fields id,name,mimetype fullpath excludetrashed stripcrsfromname showmimetype not gfolder

gam redirect stdout ./DeleteFolderFiles.txt multiprocess redirect stderr stdout csv ./FolderFileList.csv gam user "~Owner" delete drivefile "~id"

#replace delete with purge to permanently delete file

2a) Delete all non-shared files within a folder structure

gam redirect csv ./FolderNonSharedFileList.csv user us...@domain.com print filelist select 0B07qASDFGHJKLL fields id,name,mimetype fullpath excludetrashed stripcrsfromname showmimetype not gfolder pm not role owner em pma skip

gam redirect stdout ./DeleteFolderNonSharedFiles.txt multiprocess redirect stderr stdout csv ./FolderNonSharedFileList.csv gam user "~Owner" delete drivefile "~id"

#replace delete with purge to permanently delete file

2b) Delete all non-shared folders within a folder structure

# This is tricky as a non-shared folder may have shared files within it.

# More thinking required.

Ross

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Ross Scroggs

Ross.S...@gmail.com

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