Windows 10: slow deletion of cache2 entries from the firefix LOCAL dir

has anyone ever dumped this with a VBS script instead of using the FF program itself? or deleted them just by pushing the delete button? attached is a shot of what I see when deleting all of them. this dir fills up so fast with junk, what I'm going to do is automate the deletion of all the junk on a basis that is very often. currently I dump all of it via VBS scripting, however I'm going to pick and choose what I want to save. but why is it taking me 5 min to delete 15,000 files? I've even got TeraCopy, but that is not initiated during the process shown in the image. that's only for copying. if I delete junk in other dirs that has this many files in it, it doesn't take near as long...thanks.






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dir Difficulties

I am getting the hang of this command set.

Maybe somebody know a work around that will list the three time stamps at one time.
Theoretically dir /TC /TA /TW.
dir will only show one of the three at one time.

To me it seems that the only way to get all three on a line is to run loop with output to file, then boiling down the three outputs to one line. Clumsy but maybe the only way to get the job done?

Thanks for any suggestions.

 

dir Difficulties

DIR uses whatever time definition you tell it to use. Following command would list all files and folders in X:\Downloads in order they have been created:

dir X:\Downloads /t:c

DIR is fully capable to sort files and folders. Following command would list all files in X:\Downloads, oldest first:

dir X:\Downloads /o:d

The minus sign before a parameter reverses the results, so the following command would list the same folder in reversed order, newest first:

dir X:\Downloads /o:-d

You can also combine switches. Following command would list all files and folders in X:\Downloads and all its subfolders (the /s switch), listing them in newest first based on time of file / folder creation:

dir X:\Downloads /s /o:-d /t:c

 

dir Difficulties

Kari - We are both saying the same thing. Dir lists files and its lists can be sorted. Dir does not do anything to the files themselves but only to the lists it produces. Denis