If your external hard drive needs to be used between Windows and Mac, have you noticed that the hard drive contains some hidden file extensions. Or have you ever encountered some application or malicious program creating some files with specific extensions in different folders and subfolders? Deleting files and folders is a basic file operation on a computer, but if you have hundreds or thousands of files scattered across different folders and subfolders, it's not that easy to delete them. In this article, we will discuss that how to quickly remove files with specific filenames and extensions in folders and subfolders on Mac?
Use file command to remove files with specific filenames and extensions
Run Terminal app(/Applications/Utilities). If you're using macOS 10.15 and later, please add Terminal application to the Full Disk Access list(Open System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> Privacy -> Full Disk Access.) For example, delete all files with extension .log in current Desktop folder Recursively (including sub-folders): find /Users/~/Desktop -name '*. log' type f -delete
Use application to remove files with specific filenames and extensions
In addition to using command line tools, many applications also provide the same functionality. Here we recommend using PowerSuite, which not only provides more powerful deletion conditions, but also provides automatic deletion functions. Download and install PowerSuite on your Mac.
Run PowerSuite application, click Automatic tab on the left window, Click the “+” button under Custom cleanup objects, select the root folder where your files and folders belong, and then edit and choose the clean up rules. Such as delete duplicate files, file name contains the specific file name or extension, file creation date, file size and more. And Once you complete the deletion, you can click the "-" button to delete the folder to exit the cleanup rule.
Select the Auto clean up time frequency checkbox, and then choose the Deleted Time-Frequency option: Daily, 3 Days, Every Week, Two Weeks, Monthly, Two Months.
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