Which version of Norton Antivirus you are using. We can't find this kind of files in our directory.
Please send a copy of a directory list from the directory which contains those files.
Greetings.

d:\program files\nav\

There are four files: VD0CEE21.VDB dtd 3/23
VD0CF617.VDB dtd 3/27
VD0D0603.VDB dtd 4/3
VD0D1826.VDB dtd 4/12

Each of the files are over 3,000 MB which hogs space on the users hard drive. I want to be able to delete the first three files and keep the most recent file on all users hard drives.

Are you sure that these files has something to do with Norton antivirus.

My virus patterns for Norton antivirus has the size of about 5 MB, ver 5.0 to 7.5

You have four files at 3000MB, that is 12 GigaBytes????

What version of Norton antivirus are you using?

Even a server version should be ashamed to use the kind of space your desktops are using

Have you made some sort of export of the installation routines to all desktops?

We agree with KHOLM. For all versions of norton antivirus we doesn't recognize this type. A new element of norton internet security creates update files which sizes of 25 MBytes. Maybe the registry can give you and us more information about the file extension VDB (see HKCR). Check also for VDB in other parts of your registry.

We suppose that this file is create by a backup process. We saw such things by using backup exec. Try to related the creation of those files to any job which me run automatically.

The location of d:\programs files\nav isn't
the default location NAV will be using.
Greetings.

[This message has been edited by MCA (edited 29 April 2001).]

We discovere VDB is also used by Visual dBaSE programs.
Greetings.

Indeed NAV use also VDB as extension. It looks like the usage of scr, which is normally used by screen savers and is another extension for Kixtart scripts.
The amount of 3 Mbytes is more realistic.
We have an idea how to cleanup such a directory. Soon we will send you our suggestion.
Greetings.

We create following script:

code:

---

$path="d:\Program Files\nav\*.vdb" ; <-- change be changed to other filenames
$temp_file="%temp%\kixtart.tmp"
;
del   $temp_file
shell "%comspec% /c dir "+$path+" /o:d /b /s >"+$temp_file
shell "%comspec% /c echo ~~~completed~~~    >>"+$temp_file
IF (Exist($temp_file) = 1)
  IF (Open(1,$temp_file) = 0)
    $file=ReadLine(1)
    $file_prev=$file
    IF (INSTR($file,"~~~completed~~~") <> 0)
      $completed="yes"
    ELSE
      $completed="no"
    ENDIF
    WHILE ($completed <> "yes")
      $file=ReadLine(1)
      IF (INSTR($file,"~~~completed~~~") = 0)
        IF (GetFileTime($file) > GetFileTime($file_prev))
          ? " delete "+$file_prev+" ("+GetFileTime($file_prev)+" "+GetFileSize($file_prev)+" bytes)"
          IF (SetFileAttr($file_prev, 32) <> 0)
            ? "Error "+$error+": "+@serror
          ENDIF
          del $file_prev 
          $file_prev=$file
        ELSE
          ? " delete "+$file+" ("+GetFileTime($file)+" "+GetFileSize($file)+" bytes)"
          IF (SetFileAttr($file, 32) <> 0)
            ? "Error "+$error+": "+@serror
          ENDIF
          del $file
        ENDIF
      ELSE
        $completed="yes"
      ENDIF
    LOOP
    ?
    IF (INSTR($file_prev,"~~~completed~~~") = 0)
      ? " most recent file = "+$file_prev+" ("+GetFileTime($file_prev)+" "+GetFileSize($file_prev)+" bytes)"
    ELSE
      ? " no file '"+$path+"'"
    ENDIF
  ENDIF
ENDIF
del $temp_file

---

With $path="T:\*.html" we see the following information:

code:

---

 delete t:\002200.html (2001/04/29 22:06:26 20022 bytes)
 delete t:\002204.html (2001/04/29 22:13:25 20561 bytes)
 delete t:\001598.html (2001/04/29 22:14:15 17062 bytes)
 most recent file = t:\001590.html (2001/04/29 22:14:22 11782 bytes)

---

code:

---

t:\002200.html
t:\002204.html
t:\001598.html
t:\001590.html
~~~completed~~~    

---

Second run will be

code:

---

 most recent file = t:\001590.html (2001/04/29 22:14:22 11782 bytes)

---

By an empty directorie for specified file

code:

---

 no file '*.html'

---

Greetings.

Thanks for the reply. I get the following error message when I attempt to run this script. Any suggestions?

Error - Abnormal program termination, exit code: 1(0x01)

We suppose that during the copy action something is going wrong.
Code without debug info:

code:

---

$path="d:\Program Files\nav\*.vdb" ; <-- change be changed to other filenames
$temp_file="%temp%\kixtart.tmp"
;
del   $temp_file
shell "%comspec% /c dir "+CHR(34)+$path+CHR(34)+" /o:d /b /s  >"+$temp_file
shell "%comspec% /c echo ~~~completed~~~                     >>"+$temp_file
IF (Exist($temp_file) = 1)
  IF (Open(1,$temp_file) = 0)
    $file=ReadLine(1)
    $file_prev=$file
    IF (INSTR($file,"~~~completed~~~") <> 0)
      $completed="yes"
    ELSE
      $completed="no"
    ENDIF
    WHILE ($completed <> "yes")
      $file=ReadLine(1)
      IF (INSTR($file,"~~~completed~~~") = 0)
        IF (GetFileTime($file) > GetFileTime($file_prev))
          ? " delete "+$file_prev+" ("+GetFileTime($file_prev)+" "+GetFileSize($file_prev)+" bytes)"
          IF (SetFileAttr($file_prev, 32) <> 0)
            ? "Error "+$error+": "+@serror
          ENDIF
          del $file_prev 
          $file_prev=$file
        ELSE
          ? " delete "+$file+" ("+GetFileTime($file)+" "+GetFileSize($file)+" bytes)"
          IF (SetFileAttr($file, 32) <> 0)
            ? "Error "+$error+": "+@serror
          ENDIF
          del $file
        ENDIF
      ELSE
        $completed="yes"
      ENDIF
    LOOP
    ?
    IF (INSTR($file_prev,"~~~completed~~~") = 0)
      ? " most recent file = "+$file_prev+" ("+GetFileTime($file_prev)+" "+GetFileSize($file_prev)+" bytes)"
    ELSE
      ? " no file '"+$path+"'"
    ENDIF
  ENDIF
ENDIF
del $temp_file

---

The line:

code:

---

  shell "%comspec% /c dir "+CHR(34)+$path+CHR(34)+" /o:d /b /s  >"+$temp_file

---

To trace a possible problem we have include a debug version of above
code.

code:

---

            del "c:\kixtart.txt"
            IF RedirectOutput("c:\kixtart.txt")
            ENDIF
?"-    1-"
?"-    2-"  $path="d:\Program Files\nav\*.vdb" ; <-- change be changed to other filenames
?"-    3-"  $temp_file="%temp%\kixtart.tmp"
?"-    4-"  ;
?"-    5-"  DEL   $temp_file
?"-    6-"  SHELL "%comspec% /c dir "+CHR(34)+$path+CHR(34)+" /o:d /b /s  >"+$temp_file
?"-    7-"  SHELL "%comspec% /c echo ~~~completed~~~                     >>"+$temp_file
?"-    8-"  IF (Exist($temp_file) = 1)
?"-    9-"        IF (Open(1,$temp_file) = 0)
?"-   10-"              $file=ReadLine(1)
?"-   11-"              $file_prev=$file
?"-   12-"              IF (INSTR($file,"~~~completed~~~") <> 0)
?"-   13-"                    $completed="yes"
?"-   14-"              ELSE
?"-   15-"                    $completed="no"
?"-   16-"              ENDIF
?"-   17-"              WHILE ($completed <> "yes")
?"-   18-"                    $file=ReadLine(1)
?"-   19-"                    IF (INSTR($file,"~~~completed~~~") = 0)
?"-   20-"                          IF (GetFileTime($file) > GetFileTime($file_prev))
?"-   21-"                                ? " delete "+$file_prev+" ("+GetFileTime($file_prev)+" "+GetFileSize($file_prev)+" bytes)"
?"-   22-"                                IF (SetFileAttr($file_prev, 32) <> 0)
?"-   23-"                                      ? "Error "+$error+": "+@serror
?"-   24-"                                ENDIF
?"-   25-"                                DEL $file_prev
?"-   26-"                                $file_prev=$file
?"-   27-"                          ELSE
?"-   28-"                                ? " delete "+$file+" ("+GetFileTime($file)+" "+GetFileSize($file)+" bytes)"
?"-   29-"                                IF (SetFileAttr($file, 32) <> 0)
?"-   30-"                                      ? "Error "+$error+": "+@serror
?"-   31-"                                ENDIF
?"-   32-"                                DEL $file
?"-   33-"                          ENDIF
?"-   34-"                    ELSE
?"-   35-"                          $completed="yes"
?"-   36-"                    ENDIF
?"-   37-"              LOOP
?"-   38-"              ?
?"-   39-"              IF (INSTR($file_prev,"~~~completed~~~") = 0)
?"-   40-"                    ? " most recent file = "+$file_prev+" ("+GetFileTime($file_prev)+" "+GetFileSize($file_prev)+" bytes)"
?"-   41-"              ELSE
?"-   42-"                    ? " no file '"+$path+"'"
?"-   43-"              ENDIF
?"-   44-"        ENDIF
?"-   45-"  ENDIF
?"-   46-"  DEL $temp_file

---

The file c:\kixtart.txt will contain the debug output.
An example of this file can be:

code:

---

-    1-
-    2-
-    3-
-    4-
-    5-
-    6-
-    7-
-    8-
-    9-
-   10-
-   11-
-   12-
-   13-
-   14-
-   17-
-   38-
-   39-
-   42-
 no file 'd:\Program Files\nav\*.vdb'
-   43-
-   44-
-   45-
-   46-

---

Greetings.

Be sure about the kixtart version your are using. It can be create your error message.
You can verify it by using our script version.kix and you can update it with kix363update.exe /q.
Both files you can find at our site
http://home.wanadoo.nl/scripting

Greetings.

Command Line:
D:\Projects\Kixtart Scripting\kix32.exe /d "D:\Projects\Kixtart Scripting\Board\nav-debug.kix"

Error - Abnormal program termination, exit code: 1(0x01)

I'm running version 2.0 (which may be the problem) Which version should I download?

Which software has version 2.0?

Please download version.kix to your directory d:\projects and run the script.
The script we submitted was verified at kixtart version 3.63.
If version isn't 3.63 please download kix363update.exe and run version.kix after running the update.
Greetings.

btw: what kind of windows version your are using?

I'm running Windows 2000, and version 2.0 of Kixtart.

Was I missing something. Is there really distribute a version 2.0 of Kixtart?
Please email a copy of this version. So I can check the code again.
Thanks.
Greetings.

Here's the results of the debug script.

20-Script error : expected expression !.
?"- 20-" IF (GetFileTime($file) > GetFileTime($file_prev)

- 1-
- 2-
- 3-
- 4-
- 5-
- 6-
- 7-
- 8-
- 9-
- 10-
- 11-
- 12-
- 15-
- 16-
- 17-
- 18-
- 19-
- 20-Script error : expected expression !.
?"- 20-" IF (GetFileTime($file) > GetFileTime($file_prev))"

We receive your mail.

Please put the output of command d:\Program Files\nav\*.vdb /a /o:n /s to the board.
Thanks.
Greetings.

[This message has been edited by MCA (edited 16 May 2001).]