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Action Delete file (via Javascript?)

February 1, 2011
4:31 pm

JajaGaboor

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Hi,

Id like to be able to delete a file – or even folder – on reciept of an email, guess i can only achieve that with javascript, but using various stock bits of code about i cannot get it to work.

Is this feasable?

Im trying to get a template to reply with a freshly downloaded file as attachment, but cannot as it pulls the previous one from the local temp folder, hence why i want to delete it as part of the filter action.

Thanks.

February 1, 2011
9:03 pm

rkent

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I would think that deleting the file would be the easiest part of what you describe. So yes it is possible to delete a file with a filter action. The trickiest part I imagine would be communicating the file name to the action.

February 2, 2011
2:13 am

JajaGaboor

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Well the script i have used is this:

myActiveXObject = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");
file = myActiveXObject.GetFile("c:\\whateverfile.txt");
file.Delete();

Do you have any suggestions how to get this to work? Or do you mean maybe that sending the command outside of TB is the tricky bit?

No problem if its hassle, a batch could do the job no prob, i just thought javasript might be a more elegant way of achieving it.

Thank you

February 2, 2011
9:14 am

rkent

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I don't have any experience with the "ActiveXObject". Using Mozilla components, this script will delete a file in a javascript action:

let file = Cc["@mozilla.org/file/local;1"].createInstance(Ci.nsILocalFile);
file.initWithPath("c:\\temp\\test-ml-7.eml");
if (file.exists()) file.remove(false);

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