delete unnecessary xml files in recording folder automatically

Hello community,
most of my recorded movies (in the folder "recorded tv") I move into the folder "movies". This folder "movies" is monitored by moving pictures. My problem ist now that there are many xml files left in the folder "recorded tv" that I don't need anymore. Is there a batch file that I can start e.g. every week that deletes automatically all unnecessary xml files?

olli14

Hi okki14,
Unless I am misunderstanding, I think this would do what you want. Place this command in a bat file, and then use the windows scheduler to run as desired. Have I got it right ?

>del /q "c:\Recorded TV\*.xml"

You can see further options if you open up a dos command prompt and enter "help del"

Tony

Hi tomtj,
thanks for your answer but I think you didn't understand me. Some of my recorded movies I move to the folder "movies" and the depending xml files stays in the folder "recorded tv". But these xml files I don't need anymore so I want to delete only these xml files without existing ts files in the same folder. E.g. I have the file "highlander.ts" and "highlander.xml" in the folder "recorded tv". I move the file "highlander.ts" to another folder. So I don't need anymore the file "highlander.xml" in the folder "recorded tv" and I want to delete this file.

I hope I could explain what's my problem. German is not my native language.

Greetings
olli14

Hi Olli,
I understand more clearly what you are trying to do now. Sorry, but that's beyond my ability as well. I hope maybe somebody has already built this, or can be of more help than I can.

Tony

Hi tomtj and all the others,
somewhere in the web I have found this batch file. This should do what I want. But it doesn't. Does this batch file help someone to make this batch work.
f:
cd \Recorded TV
FOR %%I IN (*.*) DO IF NOT EXIST "%%~dI%%~pI%%~nI.ts" (
del %%~nI.txt
del %%~nI.xml
del %%~nI.edl
del %%~nI.incommercial
)

the batch skript in this thread might help:
http://forum.team-mediaportal.com/threads/comskip-files-left-behind.82324/#post-761508

some background info in German:
http://forum.team-mediaportal.com/threads/comskip-atomatisieren-per-batch.73753/

Great,this script is working

FOR %%I IN (*.*) DO IF NOT EXIST "%%~dI%%~pI%%~nI.ts" (
del %%~nI.*
)
exit
Thanks for the links, usualsuspect!
olli14