Value of variable "AppData" not working

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(imported topic written by cstoneba)

Any thoughts as to why this command fails?

waithidden cmd.exe /C rmdir /Q /S “{(value of variable “AppData” of environment) & “\Citrix\PNagent”}”

Command failed (Relevance substitution failed) waithidden cmd.exe /C rmdir /Q /S “{(value of variable “AppData” of environment) & “\Citrix\PNagent”}” (fixlet 2495)

Also, what happens if a user is not logged on?

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(imported comment written by NoahSalzman)

You might try moving the parentheses, it worked for me that way:

waithidden cmd.exe /C rmdir /Q /S “{(value of variable “AppData” of environment & “\Citrix\PNagent”)}”

You might want to use “exists current user” as part of the gating relevance if you want to ensure that the a user is logged on.

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(imported comment written by cstoneba)

I’m still get an error:

Command failed (Relevance substitution failed) waithidden cmd.exe /C rmdir /Q /S “{(value of variable “AppData” of environment & “\Citrix\PNagent”)}” (fixlet 2516)

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(imported comment written by NoahSalzman)

What does

value of variable “AppData” of environment

do on its own outside of the actionscript? That is, does it return a value or an error?

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(imported comment written by jessewk)

Remember that the client runs this command as the SYSTEM user. I don’t think the SYSTEM user will have an “AppData” environment variable.

You can modify your action script to do this:

waithidden cmd.exe /C rmdir /Q /S “{value “APPDATA” of key “Volatile Environment” of current user key (logged on user) of registry}\Citrix\PNagent”

You should also add the following to the relevance of the action to prevent failures if there are no logged on users or more than one logged on user:

number of logged on users = 1

Jesse

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(imported comment written by cstoneba)

That works great. Thanks Jesse. My concern now is that I still want to delete the %appdata%\Citrix\PNAgent folder, even if no one is logged on (and delete the folder in all the profiles). Currently researching that one but any input would be helpful.

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(imported comment written by cstoneba)

Woot, I am now an “experienced member”. Well, a member none the less…

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(imported comment written by cstoneba)

Got it to work with this command:

waithidden cmd.exe /C for /f “usebackq” %a in (dir /b /a "c:\documents and settings") do rd /s /q “c:\documents and Settings%a\Application Data\Citrix\PNAgent”

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(imported comment written by cstoneba)

When I try and runn the following command (a variant of the commands mentioned in higher threads), it fails because it is reading the “All Users” folder as just “All”. When I manually run the following command from command prompt, it cannot find the path.

action:

for /f “usebackq” %a in (dir /b /a "c:\documents and settings") do del /f /q “c:\documents and Settings%a\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\Program Neighborhood Agent.lnk”

error:

del /f /q “c:\documents and Settings\All\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\Program Neighborhood Agent.lnk”

The system cannot find the path specified.

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(imported comment written by jessewk)

try this:

for /f “usebackq tokens=*” %a in (dir /b /a "c:\documents and settings") do del /f /q “c:\documents and Settings%a\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\Program Neighborhood Agent.lnk”

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(imported comment written by cstoneba)

Works like a charm. thanks jessewk!