• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  Delete files with script or allow after effects to overwrite previous copy automatically

  Posted by Kirill Pavlov on October 24, 2011 at 5:00 pm

  Hi everyone,
  Got a problem.

  It there any way to delete files with script outside AE or stop AE promting ifit can overwrite previous copy?

  My way

  
//create new folder
var SaveTo = "H:/desktop/folder/"
var SaveFolder = new Folder(SaveTo);
SaveFolder.create();

  //create bat file
var exe_shutoff = new File(SaveTo + "shutoff.bat");
exe_shutoff.open("w");
exe_shutoff.writeln("del render.avi");
exe_shutoff.close();
exe_shutoff.execute();


  When I run this script from AE it creates *.bat file but doesn’t run it.

  If i run it from windows – it successfully deletes itself.

  Or maybe there is any way to do this with “system.callSystem” method?

  Director of animation and CG

  Anna Petkovskaya replied 7 years, 1 month ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
• 2 Replies

• 

  Dan Ebberts

  October 24, 2011 at 5:33 pm

  Try this:

  app.beginSuppressDialogs()
  myProject.renderQueue.render();
  app.endSuppressDialogs(false);

  Dan
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  Anna Petkovskaya

  April 8, 2019 at 2:27 pm

  Gee, I accidentally REPORTED the correct answer, OMG, webmaster should really change the way one can report a post cos many as I did could thought at first sight it looks like “REPOST/REPLY” – sorry for that! ☹

  I just wanted to say to the author that it is the actual solution to overwrite existing files which I successfully used in my rendering script…thanks for that!

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