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Hi friends, today in this tutorial I
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will be telling you that how to delete
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files which are stored inside your
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Google drive in specific folder. So this
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is example. So now inside Google app
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appcript I am writing my code. First of
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all we need to get the folder in the
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Google drive. So we will be using drive
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app dot get folder by id. So here we
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just need to provide the ID of the
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folder. So in order to get the ID right
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click on the folder get sharable link
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and now open this link in the browser
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and this is the ID you can see that ID
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is equal to and just copy this text here
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and you just need to provide the ID like
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this inside double quotes and now we
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have successfully got the folder in
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order to get the files we will be
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declaring a files variable and we will
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be invoking a method folder dot get
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files this is a method so basically it
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will return the files in an array. Okay.
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And now we just need to iterate it. So
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we will be using the while loop. And
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inside this we will write here files dot
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has next. So it will return a boolean
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value if any kind of file is present
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inside this folder. And now we just need
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to write a very simple line of code
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which will be files dot next dot set
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trashed. So basically this is a here we
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just need to pass true the boolean
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value. That's it. And now it will be
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deleting all the files. Once I run this
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function, I need to first of all give it
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name to it. Let's suppose I give it a
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name of delete. Click on okay. And now
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it will ask for the permissions. First
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of all, if you run this, so if I run
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this code here,
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so it is saving the file code. So just
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wait, it will be given just uh uh give
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the permissions first of all login onto
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your account, Google account and uh then
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you just need to click on advance. Go to
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delete. Here you can see that and grant
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the permissions
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allow it
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and now it will run the function and you
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will see that all these files will be
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deleted. So just wait you will see that
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guys all the files have been deleted in
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this folder images. So in this easy way
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you can just delete all the files which
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are stored inside a folder in Google
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drive using Google appcript. So
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basically this is not mandatory. You
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have to first of all look onto the
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folder. This can be crucial content of
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yours. So make sure that you need to
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delete all the files before deleting it.
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So in this way, this is a line of
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JavaScript code that is necessary in
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order to delete files stored in Google
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Drive. So, thanks very much for watching
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this