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Delete com.adobe.mediabrowser.plist

  • December 31, 2008
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Hi,

I want to delete the com.adobe.mediabrowser.plist (~/Library/Preferences/) for the user that's currently logging in. I tried to do this with a policy:
Search for file by path: ~/Library/Preferences/com.adobe.mediabrowser.plist and Delete if found.

This doesn't work because it can't find the file (cause it's using the casper account?).
Is this possible with a variable e.g. /Users/$1/Library/Preferences/com.adobe.mediabrowser.plist? $1 doesn't work.

If I use a script which variable tells me the login name of the user?

Thanks in advance.

Kind Regards,

Martin van Diemen

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G-Star International B.V.
www.g-star.com

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    • milesleacy
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    • December 31, 2008

    username is $3
    $1 is the mount point of the target drive
    $2 is the computer name

    $4 through $11 are configurable.

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    • Anonymous
    • January 2, 2009

    What version of Casper are you using? There was a bug in 6.0 that caused $3 to not be set, Casper 6.01 fixed this.

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    • martin11
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    • January 2, 2009

    Hi Miles,

    Thanks for your reply. I've tried to make use of the $3 variable but the strange thing is that it's empty. We're making use of Active Directory. Could this have something to do with it?

    Best wishes for 2009 to you all!

    Kind Regards,

    Martin van Diemen

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    • milesleacy
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    • January 2, 2009

    What is the script triggered by? I would set it to login or logout to be
    sure that there is a username available. If it runs on another trigger, you
    risk the possibility that no one is logged in.

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    • martin11
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    • January 5, 2009

    Triggered by login. I also tested the script when an user was logged in.

    Kind Regards,

    Martin van Diemen

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    • martin11
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    • January 5, 2009

    The version that has been installed is 6.01

    Kind Regards,

    Martin van Diemen

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    • tlarkin
    • Honored Contributor
    • January 5, 2009

    I have a search and destroy policy that searches out files by type or by name and deletes them. You don't need a script as it is a one liner command. Keeping it simple is the way to go in my humble opinion. If you want to get specific you can script it out and make it more robust.

    Here are some examples:

    /usr/bin/find /Users/* -name "full_filename.extension" -print -delete

    That will search the /Users folder and delete all files to test it out just use the -print option first and leave out the delete option. Then once you confirmed it works add back in the delete. Working for a public school system I get to search and destroy some creative user created content that gets passed around from time to time.

    If you are looking to delete a certain file type across the board you can add to the find command with regex and since home folder synchronizing is not perfect it syncs things that are not suppose to be there, and then I have to play janitor on the file servers. An example of that is:

    /usr/sbin/find -x -E /path/to/share -regex '.*.(m[4po][34agpv]|mpeg|aac|asf|wmv)' -print -delete

    That deletes pretty much any file with those extensions in the file name, MP3, MP4, AAC, mpeg, so on and so forth. So that should give you something to work with and with the find command set the path to a narrow scope, otherwise it will just search the root of the drive and that can take forever to run

    Hope that helps


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    • kirk_magill
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    • March 26, 2012

    /usr/bin/find /Users/* -name "full_filename.extension" -print -delete Worked Great for me.

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