{"id":74,"date":"2019-08-09T09:12:19","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T09:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webemprise.com\/casebook\/?p=74"},"modified":"2019-08-09T09:13:23","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T09:13:23","slug":"delete-multiple-files-of-a-specific-file-type","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/webemprise.com\/casebook\/2019\/08\/09\/delete-multiple-files-of-a-specific-file-type\/","title":{"rendered":"Delete Multiple Files of A Specific FIle Type"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Situation:  In my photos\/images folders are numerous RAW files ( *.CR2 ) which are very large and it is increasingly unlikely that I will ever use them since I have their HD JPEG versions too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Problem:  How to mass delete the RAW files.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Solution:  Use a run command to delete the specific type of files. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Press Windows+R to\u00a0<strong>open<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cRun\u201d box. Type \u201c<strong>cmd<\/strong>\u201d and then click \u201cOK\u201d to\u00a0<strong>open<\/strong>\u00a0a regular\u00a0<strong>Command Prompt<\/strong>. Type \u201c<strong>cmd<\/strong>\u201d and then press Ctrl+Shift+Enter to\u00a0<strong>open<\/strong>\u00a0an administrator<strong>Command Prompt<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Change directory to where the folder is:   example cd Photos\/2017 then type command del *.cr2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Change directory back one level cd .. or change directory to root cd \\<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Situation: In my photos\/images folders are numerous RAW files ( *.CR2 ) which are very large and it is increasingly unlikely that I will ever use them since I have their HD JPEG versions too. Problem: How to mass delete the RAW files. Solution: Use a run command to delete the specific type of files. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/webemprise.com\/casebook\/2019\/08\/09\/delete-multiple-files-of-a-specific-file-type\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Delete Multiple Files of A Specific FIle Type<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/webemprise.com\/casebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/webemprise.com\/casebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/webemprise.com\/casebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/webemprise.com\/casebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/webemprise.com\/casebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/webemprise.com\/casebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76,"href":"http:\/\/webemprise.com\/casebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/76"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/webemprise.com\/casebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/webemprise.com\/casebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/webemprise.com\/casebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}