Cron Help

[okmsx10h]

I uploaded my website and apparently in the short time it was sitting on my desktop windows created 4131 desktop.ini files. Now, due to that and other things (a backup I created) I am over the invisible (read the congratulations you joined e-mail should have said something about the) 512MB limit.

So, now I am trying to clean out the website.. I connected with ftp, moved & deleted some stuff and then started to tackle the desktop.ini problem.. Did a search, found all 4131, selected them all in the find window (FileZilla), right clicked and hit delete. Everything seemed to be going smoothly until I glimpsed this message:

Command: DELE desktop.ini
Response: 550 Could not delete desktop.ini: Permission denied
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Okay I thought.. CRON job it is.. I tried the following commands (Timing: *,*,*,*,*):

1. find /public_html/ -type f -name 'desktop.ini' -delete
2. find /public_html/ -type f -name 'desktop.ini' -exec rm {}+
3. find /public_html/ -type f -name 'desktop.ini' -print0 | xargs -0 rm
   
4. find /public_html/ -type f -name 'desktop.ini' -print0 | xargs -0 --no-run-if-empty rm

To no avail (set it to send e-mail and ftp checks still show file).

HELP!

 

[okmsx10h]

Scratch this.. I exported an xml list of the files from FileZilla and used a regex search to delete the offending file entries.. re-uploading now.

It would be nice to know why the CRON job failed in case I need it in the future.