I need help writing a script to delete a folder at startup.

Scripting Forums AppleScript | Mac OS X
#1

I need the \harddrive\users\macuser\Library\fonts folder to be emptied at each startup of the macinstosh machine.

I have no clue how to do this.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks
Eric

#2

Hi Eric,

this deletes all files in the fonts folder of the current user

set userFontsFolder to quoted form of POSIX path of (path to fonts from user domain)
do shell script "rm " & userFontsFolder & "*"

I hope you know, what you are doing :wink:

#3

Thanks for your help with this. I am way over my head with this kind of scripting. The reason I need this type of script is for copywrite issues. I can’t allow any of the designers, copy editors, or anyone else to use fonts that are not properly licensed. We only allow fonts in the Harddrive\Library\Fonts folder for management purposes. If I could impose and ask one more thing, How would you set this script to run at every logon. Is that impossible? Or would it be easier to set it to run at every start up of the computer?

Thanks again,
Eric