Hi Fränk,

to do what you want, you will still need something that interfaces with the file system. Pd doesn't do that by itself. You would simply need to construct messages to [shell] which would tell it to delete the proper file. In your case, I would suggest [makefilename], [sprintf] or similar to construct the correct file names, perhaps by using a counter construction to increment the number of the file, then [prepend] the "rm" command to the created filename, then send to [shell] (untested, only a suggestion):

[metro 60000] | [f]X[+ 1] | [makefilename image%d.jpg] | [prepend rm] | [shell]

As long as your JPGs were in the same directory as the Pd patch, something like this would likely do the job. Otherwise, you would have to include the path to the directory in the [makefilename] part (as long as it supports the "/" character that is...)

Best, Derek

Fränk Zimmer wrote:

Hi Derek, thanks for your reply.- I don´t want to do it manually.- For the project I´m working on, I store capture image from a webcam to a directory. Every image has another name: image1.jpg, image2.jpg, image3.jpg, ... Now I want to delete certain images after 1min. For this I would need a delete file-Function in Pd.- thanks.-

fraenk

Derek Holzer schrieb:

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[shell] ?

D.

Fränk Zimmer wrote:

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Dear friends of Pd, I´m looking for a way to delete a file in a certain directory out of Pd. May be just by pressing bang. Has anybody already tried this?