Delete current file from harddisk

yoestiee · Postby **yoestiee** » 12 Jan 2014 19:50

I would say move to recycle bin, most programs do this...

147852369 · Postby **147852369** » 13 Jan 2014 20:12

That's fine.
I'm not at home.
But the batch file was like this:

@ECHO OFF &SETLOCAL
FOR /f "delims=" %%a IN (VLC_toDelete.txt) DO (
	IF EXIST "%%~a" (
		DEL "%%~a" 2>&1 |findstr . >nul &&echo %%a wurde nicht gelöscht. || echo %%a erfolgreich gelöscht.
	) ELSE (
		ECHO %%a nicht gefunden.
	)
)

Or this:

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:: Diese Batch-Datei gehÃ¶rt zu "Diskdelete for Windows". Diskdelete for Windows speichert die Pfade der zu lÃ¶schenden Bilder in einer Textdatei. 
:: Diskdelete kann unter Windows die Dateien nicht direkt von der Festplatte lÃ¶schen, da Windows diese nicht freigibt, weil sie gerade in Verwendung sind. Unter Linux funktioniert Disklete.
:: Deswegen habe ich Diskdelete so modifiziert, dass die zu lÃ¶schenden Dateien letztendlich Ã¼ber CMD gelÃ¶scht werden kÃ¶nnen.


:: TO-DO: error-log, delete line of successfull deleted files, Error = color red

@ECHO OFF &SETLOCAL

title DiskdeleteForWindowsBatch

set PFAD=C:\Users\ph\Desktop\VLC_toDelete.txt

FOR /f "delims=" %%a IN (%PFAD%) DO (
	IF EXIST "%%~a" (
		DEL "%%~a" /F /Q 2>&1 |findstr . >nul &&echo %%a wurde nicht gel”scht. || echo %%a erfolgreich gel”scht.
	) ELSE (
		ECHO %%a nicht gefunden.
	)
)

echo.
echo.
echo.
echo Drcke eine beliebige Taste, um die Konsole zu schlieáen...
pause > NUL

yoestiee · Postby **yoestiee** » 16 Jan 2014 17:03

This will be implemented in next version of VLC ?

147852369 · Postby **147852369** » 16 Jan 2014 17:06

No. Sorry. This is just an extension which you have to install by yourself. At the moment it works just in older VLC versions because of LUA.

Postby **mederi** » 18 Jan 2014 13:13

Dankeschön

The list of chosen files is actually m3u playlist. It could be used also for other purposes, for example for copying files to a destination directory: https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.ph ... 88#p395688
This could be another function of an "universal" VLC Extension. In this case a sum of file sizes would be a useful information.

yoestiee · Postby **yoestiee** » 21 Jan 2014 15:52

Could be very cool and usefull if implemented in futures versions of VLC, will really help me to get rid of videos I don't anymore want... (I have a tons of them, but it's too long to delete manually...)

kalon · Postby **kalon** » 30 Mar 2014 06:57

Hi guys,
Hoping someone could help me out. I'm trying to figure out how I might change the above scripts so that I'd have one button for immediate delete and another which would "save" the file by moving it to another directory (preferably based on filename).

The background is that I've been using Miro on Linux for a long time but I'm tired of it flaking out so I'm trying out flexget for rss downloading and just need a way to manage played videos somehow. I figured I could download everything to a temp folder which is watched by a cron job that deletes files after x days. If I could "save" files by moving them up a directory and in to their one folder that make it perfect.

Really appreciate and help or pointers.

Postby **rverboom** » 02 Apr 2014 16:30

Hi all,

I have the same problem, with directories of ripped mp3's from my CD collection.
Most not wanted on my mp3 player, but deleting with windows explorer and VLC is not handy.

My temporary solution is the directory player by 1by1
http://mpesch3.de1.cc/1by1.html
In the options you can decide to delete without a dialog.

But I am still hoping for a solution in VLC...

Rob

147852369 · Postby **147852369** » 17 Jun 2014 10:43

I don't have any ideas how to resolve this problem in newer versions of VLC in LUA.

My solution only works in older versions of VLC on Windows because of the removed callback function in current LUA. And it only works with a batch-Script to bypass the permission problem but that's fine for me. You can edit the extension and the batch script to move files to another directory or do other tings for Windows. On Linux, you can do it without the batch file as you edit just the extension file.

I wish there were a official VLC extension that can delete and move files with hot keys. And a statistic / error log would be nice.

I don't know the whole API of VLC. Is there an opportunity to programming this? So I know that the involvement enabled the interface is worthwhile for me. Otherwise I probably would not program any more extensions for me. Maybe it's natively possible.

Sorry for my English

-Caglar Yanik

coder99 · Postby **coder99** » 20 Oct 2014 23:23

Extension based on code and ideas from this thread - http://addons.videolan.org/content/show ... ent=167547

Tested only on Windows 8 and VLC 2.1.1.

Postby **mederi** » 21 Oct 2014 15:50

Perhaps you could improve the extension and include also another ideas discussed here to make it as universal as possible: support also for Linux; settings with various options: delete item (yes/no), write items in the file (no/always/if not deletable), display the list in html widget (easy to select and copy text), the list can be later used for deleting/copying/moving files (batch script), ...

coder99 · Postby **coder99** » 23 Oct 2014 21:22

Extension based on code and ideas from this thread - http://addons.videolan.org/content/show ... ent=167547

Tested only on Windows 8 and VLC 2.1.1.

Extension deleted from addons.videolan.org, but here below is the code.

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function descriptor()
	return {
		title = "RealDelete",
		version = "1.2",
		shortdesc = [[
Deletes currently playing file from disk and from playlist.

Usage (Windows):
1. Name extension file realdelete.lua and copy it into VLC extensions folder
e.g. C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\extensions\realdelete.lua
2. restart VLC; extension should be visible under View menu

Tested on Windows 8 & VLC 2.1.1
Supports only ASCII file names.

License: GPL http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html

You use this extension at your own risk - author cannot be held responsible
for any direct or indirect damage caused.

Based on:
* Diskdelete 0.2 by Mark Morschhäuser
* https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=108811
(users 147852369, mederi)
		]],
		url=""
	}
end

shouldDelete = 0
shouldClose = 0
broken = 0
metaCounter = 0
btnDelete = nil
btnOk = nil
btnCancel = nil
deleteFromPlaylist = 0

function activate()
	vlc.msg.info("[RealDelete] Activated")
	d = vlc.dialog("RealDelete")
	labelInfo=d:add_label("Delete <b>from disk and from playlist</b>?",1,1,2,1)
	labelFile=d:add_label("",1,2,2,2)
	labelSpacing=d:add_label("<br/>",1,3,2,1)   
	btnDelete = d:add_button("Delete", click_delete,1,4,1,1)
	btnCancel = d:add_button("Cancel", click_cancel,2,4,1,1)
	selectFile()
	d:show()   
end

function deactivate()
	vlc.msg.info("[RealDelete] Deactivated")
end

function close()
	vlc.msg.info("[RealDelete] Will close now")
	--d:delete() -- close and delte dialog
	vlc.deactivate()
end

function selectFile()
	local isPlaying = vlc.input.is_playing()
	if isPlaying~= true then
		broken = 1
		messageMode("File to delete should be playing")
	else
		item = vlc.input.item()	
		uri = item:uri()  
		filename = vlc.strings.decode_uri(uri) -- decode %foo stuff from the URI
		filename = string.sub(filename,9) -- remove 'file://' prefix which is 7 chars long
		--filepath = string.gsub(filename,"/","\\") -- Windows style path, e.g. c:\mp3\the best.mp3
		vlc.msg.info("[RealDelete] selected for deletion: " .. filename)
		labelFile:set_text(filename)
		itemId = vlc.playlist.current()
	end
end

function click_cancel()
	close()
end

function click_delete()
	vlc.playlist.next()	
	shouldDelete = 1
end

function meta_changed()	
	--vlc.msg.info("[RealDelete] Meta changed ")
	if broken == 1 then
		--vlc.msg.info("[RealDelete] Broken")
		do return end
	elseif shouldDelete == 1 then		
		metaCounter = metaCounter + 1		
		if metaCounter > 2 then		
			vlc.msg.info("metaCounter > 1")
			local nextItemId = vlc.playlist.current()
			if nextItemId == itemId then-- maybe only one item in playlist
				vlc.msg.info("Maybe only one item in playlist")
				vlc.playlist.next()
				nextItemId = vlc.playlist.current()
				if nextItemId == itemId then-- only one item in playlist
					broken = 1
					messageMode("<br>Playlist should have at least two files</br>")
				end					
			else
				shouldDelete = 0		
				deleteFile()
			end
		end
	elseif shouldClose == 1 then
		metaCounter = metaCounter + 1
		vlc.msg.info("[RealDelete] Meta counter " .. metaCounter)
		if metaCounter > 7 then					
			vlc.msg.info("[RealDelete] Meta counter " .. metaCounter)
			if deleteFromPlaylist == 1 then				
				vlc.playlist.delete(itemId)
			end
			shouldClose = 0			
			close()	
		end
	end
end

function messageMode(message)
	vlc.msg.info("messageMode()")
	broken = 1	
	-- d:del_widget(btnDelete)	
	--d:del_widget(labelFile)
	--d:del_widget(labelInfo)	
	labelInfo:set_text("")
	--labelFile:set_text("")
	labelInfo=d:add_label(message,1,1,3,1)	
	btnDelete = d:add_button("OK", close,1,4,1,1)
	--btnCancel:set_text("OK")
end

function deleteFile()
	if broken == 1 then
		do return end
	end
	vlc.msg.info("deleteFile()")
	if filename~=nil then	
		retval, err = os.remove(filename)
		if(retval == nil) then -- error handling; if deletion failed, print why
			broken = 1
			local errMessage = tostring(err)
			vlc.msg.info("[RealDelete] error: " .. errMessage)
			if string.find(errMessage, "No such file or directory") then
				messageMode("Cannot delete files with non-ascii names :(")
			else
				messageMode(errMessage)
			end
		else
			vlc.msg.info("[RealDelete] File deleted")	
			--vlc.playlist.delete(itemId)
			deleteFromPlaylist = 1
			filename=nil
			--d:hide() -- hide dialog
			shouldClose = 1 		
		end
	end
end

It sometimes crashes VLC immediately after successfully deleting file. I don't know why.

147852369 · Postby **147852369** » 10 Dec 2014 13:09

I have a similar problem after skipping files with my extension: https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=123125

147852369 · Postby **147852369** » 05 Jan 2017 23:05

Hello!
I have good news. Here's a new topic about this problem: https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.ph ... 68#p451830

I started to develop a VLC Media Player based on JavaFX. You can delete files directly from hard drive also on Windows - without crashing! Please test and notify me about your experience in the new thread.

TonyPipes · Postby **TonyPipes** » 06 Jan 2017 16:13

Hey Guys,

i took the liberty to adapt mederis 2 Button solution - it's now a one button solution

It also removes the playlist entry for the file that has been deleted and resumes playback at the next entry...

hope this is of help to anyone

cheers!

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function descriptor()
   return {
      title = "Diskdelete_2 (1 button)"
   }
end

function activate()
   d = vlc.dialog("Diskdelete")
   label=d:add_label("<b>Clicking</b> this button will <b>delete</b> the currently playing file <b>from disk</b>.<br>You have to <b>be sure</b> as <b>you won't be asked</b> again!<br>You are responsible for your own actions, consider yourself warned.",1,1,2,1)
   d:add_button("DELETE CURRENTLY PLAYING FILE", click_delete,2,2)
   d:show()
   vlc.msg.info("[Diskdelete] Activated")
end

function deactivate()
   vlc.msg.info("[Diskdelete] Deactivated")
end

function close()
   vlc.deactivate()
end

function meta_changed()
end


function click_delete()

item = vlc.input.item() -- get the current playing file
   uri = item:uri() -- extract it's URI

   vlc.playlist.skip(1)
   
   playhere = vlc.playlist.current()   

   for i, v in pairs(vlc.playlist.get("playlist",false).children) do
      if( uri == v.path )
      then
         vlc.playlist.delete(tonumber(v.id))
      end
   end

   vlc.playlist.goto( playhere+1 )
   vlc.playlist.play()
   

   filename = vlc.strings.decode_uri(uri) -- decode %foo stuff from the URI
   filename = string.sub(filename,9) -- remove 'file://' prefix which is 7 chars long
   filepath = string.gsub(filename,"/","\\") -- Windows style path, e.g. c:\mp3\the best.mp3
   vlc.msg.info("[Diskdelete] selected for deletion: " .. filename)

   -- label:set_text(filepath)

   if filename~=nil then
      retval, err = os.remove(filename)
      
      if(retval == nil) -- error handling; if deletion failed, print why
      then
         label:set_text(tostring(err))
         vlc.msg.info("[Diskdelete] error: " .. tostring(err))
      else

         label:set_text(filepath.."<br /><b>DELETED!DELETED!DELETED!</b>")
      end
      filename=nil
   end
end

JWalkerMR · Postby **JWalkerMR** » 10 Mar 2017 21:23

Well, my solution is not that tricky, but it works too. As long as files are playing, starting my lua writes current filename into a batchfile; when no file is playing, starting my lua executes this batchfile, which deletes all files written there, and then deletes the batchfile.

Replace "C:\\lua\\" with some directory you want to use...

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function activate()		
	if vlc.input.is_playing()~= true then
		os.execute("C:\\lua\\DeleteIt.bat")
		os.remove("C:\\lua\\DeleteIt.bat")
		close()	
	else
		item = vlc.input.item()   
		uri = item:uri()	
		filename = vlc.strings.decode_uri(uri)
		filename = string.sub(filename,9)
		filename = string.gsub(filename,"/","\\")
		delfile=io.open("C:\\lua\\DeleteIt.bat","a+")
		delfile:write("del " .. filename,"\n")
		delfile:close()
		close()
	end
end

HelmutEder · Postby **HelmutEder** » 21 Mar 2017 12:15

Hi JWalkerMR,

Would you be able to post the entire .lua please?

Much appreciated!

JWalkerMR · Postby **JWalkerMR** » 21 Mar 2017 19:10

oh, there isn't much more:

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appname = "DelBat"
appver = "0.0.1"
author = "JWalkerMR"

function descriptor()
	return	{
			title = appname;
			version = appver;
			author = author;
			}
end

function activate()		
	if vlc.input.is_playing()~= true then
		os.execute("C:\\lua\\DeleteIt.bat")
		os.remove("C:\\lua\\DeleteIt.bat")
		close()	
	else
		item = vlc.input.item()   
		uri = item:uri()	
		filename = vlc.strings.decode_uri(uri)
		filename = string.sub(filename,9)
		filename = string.gsub(filename,"/","\\")
		delfile=io.open("C:\\lua\\DeleteIt.bat","a+")
		delfile:write("del " .. filename,"\n")
		delfile:close()
		close()
	end
end

function close()
    vlc.deactivate()
end

function meta_changed()
end

GBO330 · Postby **GBO330** » 06 Feb 2018 23:04

Hi All, I know this is an old discussion, but has this ever been resolved in VLC for windows? (hotkey to delete current file) I can see from this discussion that vlc cannot delete stuff in windows, would it make a difference if you run VLC as administrator?
If this is simply impossible, could we perhaps just have a hotkey to save the path of currently playing file to a text file? (someone mentioned a "VLC_toDelete.txt", but couldn't get if or how it was achieved)
being able to instantly save the paths to a text doc would be significantly better than nothing.
Lastly, if all above is impossible, can we at least have a hotkey to save current file's path to windows clip-board? thanks in advance to anyone with answers!

Postby **mederi** » 07 Feb 2018 16:11

Lua scripts do not support hotkeys. Extensions support a dialog box, where you can click buttons or you can activate an action just in VLC menu without the dialog box and you can write a path in a list in a file. Better if the delete feature would be built-in directly in VLC (a hotkey, a control menu button, an option in VLC menu and right-click context menu): https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/6255

Misska · Postby **Misska** » 06 Jul 2018 13:56

oh yes ! please post !

ale5000 · Postby **ale5000** » 09 Jul 2018 11:17

Extension based on code and ideas from this thread - http://addons.videolan.org/content/show ... ent=167547

Tested only on Windows 8 and VLC 2.1.1.
Extension deleted from addons.videolan.org, but here below is the code.

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function descriptor() return { title = "RealDelete", version = "1.2", shortdesc = [[ Deletes currently playing file from disk and from playlist. Usage (Windows): 1. Name extension file realdelete.lua and copy it into VLC extensions folder e.g. C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\extensions\realdelete.lua 2. restart VLC; extension should be visible under View menu Tested on Windows 8 & VLC 2.1.1 Supports only ASCII file names. License: GPL http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html You use this extension at your own risk - author cannot be held responsible for any direct or indirect damage caused. Based on: * Diskdelete 0.2 by Mark Morschhäuser * https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=108811 (users 147852369, mederi) ]], url="" } end shouldDelete = 0 shouldClose = 0 broken = 0 metaCounter = 0 btnDelete = nil btnOk = nil btnCancel = nil deleteFromPlaylist = 0 function activate() vlc.msg.info("[RealDelete] Activated") d = vlc.dialog("RealDelete") labelInfo=d:add_label("Delete from disk and from playlist?",1,1,2,1) labelFile=d:add_label("",1,2,2,2) labelSpacing=d:add_label(" ",1,3,2,1) btnDelete = d:add_button("Delete", click_delete,1,4,1,1) btnCancel = d:add_button("Cancel", click_cancel,2,4,1,1) selectFile() d:show() end function deactivate() vlc.msg.info("[RealDelete] Deactivated") end function close() vlc.msg.info("[RealDelete] Will close now") --d:delete() -- close and delte dialog vlc.deactivate() end function selectFile() local isPlaying = vlc.input.is_playing() if isPlaying~= true then broken = 1 messageMode("File to delete should be playing") else item = vlc.input.item() uri = item:uri() filename = vlc.strings.decode_uri(uri) -- decode %foo stuff from the URI filename = string.sub(filename,9) -- remove 'file://' prefix which is 7 chars long --filepath = string.gsub(filename,"/","\\") -- Windows style path, e.g. c:\mp3\the best.mp3 vlc.msg.info("[RealDelete] selected for deletion: " .. filename) labelFile:set_text(filename) itemId = vlc.playlist.current() end end function click_cancel() close() end function click_delete() vlc.playlist.next() shouldDelete = 1 end function meta_changed() --vlc.msg.info("[RealDelete] Meta changed ") if broken == 1 then --vlc.msg.info("[RealDelete] Broken") do return end elseif shouldDelete == 1 then metaCounter = metaCounter + 1 if metaCounter > 2 then vlc.msg.info("metaCounter > 1") local nextItemId = vlc.playlist.current() if nextItemId == itemId then-- maybe only one item in playlist vlc.msg.info("Maybe only one item in playlist") vlc.playlist.next() nextItemId = vlc.playlist.current() if nextItemId == itemId then-- only one item in playlist broken = 1 messageMode(" Playlist should have at least two files") end else shouldDelete = 0 deleteFile() end end elseif shouldClose == 1 then metaCounter = metaCounter + 1 vlc.msg.info("[RealDelete] Meta counter " .. metaCounter) if metaCounter > 7 then vlc.msg.info("[RealDelete] Meta counter " .. metaCounter) if deleteFromPlaylist == 1 then vlc.playlist.delete(itemId) end shouldClose = 0 close() end end end function messageMode(message) vlc.msg.info("messageMode()") broken = 1 -- d:del_widget(btnDelete) --d:del_widget(labelFile) --d:del_widget(labelInfo) labelInfo:set_text("") --labelFile:set_text("") labelInfo=d:add_label(message,1,1,3,1) btnDelete = d:add_button("OK", close,1,4,1,1) --btnCancel:set_text("OK") end function deleteFile() if broken == 1 then do return end end vlc.msg.info("deleteFile()") if filename~=nil then retval, err = os.remove(filename) if(retval == nil) then -- error handling; if deletion failed, print why broken = 1 local errMessage = tostring(err) vlc.msg.info("[RealDelete] error: " .. errMessage) if string.find(errMessage, "No such file or directory") then messageMode("Cannot delete files with non-ascii names :(") else messageMode(errMessage) end else vlc.msg.info("[RealDelete] File deleted") --vlc.playlist.delete(itemId) deleteFromPlaylist = 1 filename=nil --d:hide() -- hide dialog shouldClose = 1 end end end
It sometimes crashes VLC immediately after successfully deleting file. I don't know why.

Hi,
could you please correctly specify your license information and maybe putting the script on something like GitHub?
Saying only GPL doesn't mean nothing legally since there are 3 versions of GPL; also it should be specified if you allow future versions; possible using the standard identifier: https://spdx.org/licenses/

In your case it is probably:

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SPDX-License-Identifer: GPL-3.0-or-later

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