Folders in windows 2003

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MReyes - 27 Jan 2006 01:48 GMT

Good evening all,
We have an Apple and Windows environment. We are deleting about a
terabyte of data from a NAS. These are all home directories for our
Middle School and High School. I am having a lot of problems deleting
some files found in the following folders :
homefolder\library\Application
Support\SyncServices\Local\ClientData\FileName. The folder may contain
multiple file names which are quite long.
My question is : Is there a utility for mac out there that will allow
me to delete all these files ??? I found a utility that works on
Windows but it takes a very long time to run given the number of files
that it has to go thru.

Thanks in advance for any help,
Martin Reyes
LHRIC
Senior network administrator

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William Smith - 27 Jan 2006 03:02 GMT

> Good evening all,
> We have an Apple and Windows environment. We are deleting about a
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> Windows but it takes a very long time to run given the number of files
> that it has to go thru.

Hi Martin!

You'll probably have the fastest results deleting the files directly
from the Windows server, but if you need to use a Mac to do the deletes,
you can try using the Terminal. A command similar to

rm -R /pathToFolderOfHomeFolders/*

would delete everything there. For more information on the "rm" or
"remove" command, type "man rm" in the Terminal for the manual.

Hope this helps! bill

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Jim Gordon MVP - 28 Jan 2006 18:47 GMT

Hi,

A company called Thursby makes products that provide for tighter
integration with Windows than MacOSX provides all by itself.
http://www.thursby.com/

Their products have been around a long time and are reputed to work very
well.

-Jim

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> Good evening all,
> We have an Apple and Windows environment. We are deleting about a
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> LHRIC
> Senior network administrator

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MReyes - 31 Jan 2006 17:36 GMT

thanks to all that replied. We are in contact with Apple to figure out
a way to avoid this hustle next time we need to delete user home
folders. will post an answer if we get one from Apple. Thanks again.
Martin Reyes

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Folders in windows 2003