Adding Folders to a User-defined Custom Wash Item

Depending on your selections, adding a folder to a user-defined Custom Wash Item deletes the folder or specific files within the folder each time you run a wash. You may want to use this feature when a program you use creates a folder that gets very large over time or that contains files you do not want to keep. Be sure that the program will re-create any deleted files or folders and that deleting them is not a problem.

To add a folder to a user-defined Custom Wash Item:

Follow steps 1 through 6 in Creating and Editing Your Own, User-defined Custom Wash Items.
Select the Add Folders Containing Multiple Files to Wash option.
Click Next.
In the Step 1 panel, navigate to the folder you want.
In the Step 2 panel, select the options you want to use:
If root folder is empty, then remove the folder—Select this if you want Window Washer to delete the top-level folder you selected.
Include subfolders—Select this if you want Window Washer to wash the same files from each subfolder under the selected folder.
If subfolder is empty, then delete the folder—Select this if you want Window Washer to delete empty subfolders under the selected folder.
Change default mask wildcard—By default, Window Washer deletes all files in the selected folder. If you want to delete only files with a specific file extension, for example .log, change the mask to *.log.
Click Add.
The folder name displays in the Step 3 panel.
If you select a system folder, Window Washer will warn you about deleting files from system folders. Be sure that you want to delete the file or folder before saying Yes to this message.
To remove a folder from the list of folders to wash, select the folder and click Remove.
To remove all folders from the list of folders to wash, click Remove All.
Repeat steps 4 through 6 until you have added all of the folders you want to wash using this Custom Wash Item.
Click Next to continue.
When the Completion window displays, click Finished.