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google-apps-scriptgoogle-drive-api
Jan De Smet
Jan De Smet

Reputation: 13

Google Apps Script Multiple Search with Drive App

I hope I have searched good enough in order to ask this questions.

I have this code to clean up some default files in our team drive, if somebody got them in sync by accident...

In this case desktop.ini

function cleanup(){
  var folderID = 'FOLDERID';
  var search = 'title Contains "desktop.ini"';
  var fileIDs = [];
  var files = DriveApp.searchFiles(search);
  while (files.hasNext()){
      files.next().setTrashed(true);
    }
   Logger.log('fileIDs.length + ' files have been moved to trash');
}

Is there a way to add multiple hits in one search?

What if I would want to add other files like "thumbs.db" or from the mac guys ".DS_Store". Do I need to search for everything individually or is there a .gitignore way to solve it?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 290

Answers (1)

Tanaike
Tanaike

Reputation: 201378

How about this? When you want to retrieve the files with the filenames which contained "desktop.ini", "thumbs.db" and ".DS_Store" in one search using DriveApp.searchFiles(), you can achieve it using or operator as follows.

var search = 'title contains "desktop.ini" or title contains "thumbs.db" or title contains ".DS_Store"';

Reference :

Upvotes: 2

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