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That find on the "remove after x days" was a sweet score! :cool:

I actually set it to 3 days to give the inevitable student that forgot to save to a flash drive the opportunity to save face....

Hehe, the nirvana comment had me loling.

Ok, so the string:

find /Users \( \! -name Users -and \! -name .localized -and \! -name Shared -and \! -name $USER \) -maxdepth 1 \! -mtime -1d -exec rm...

Ok, I've got the script in place, and the write command set, but I think the code had an error in it?

# If user is an admin, exit script
dscl . -read /Groups/admin GroupMembership | grep -q...

All of the machines are already bound to the Active Directory from the Directory Utility. At this point all units are on 10.6.8, we'll soon be moving to 10.7 however I'd like to get this figured out...

So I've tried to copy/paste both suggested codes from [MA]Flying_Meat and the most recent one from doctorfoo1 into AppleScript, but when I go to save out and compile both error out with a syntax...

Maybe I'm creating the script wrong or something, for it's not cooperating. The part you said to copy/paste, should that just be put into a new TextEdit doc and saved out as a plain text file?

And...

Thanks guys. Just getting to my new images now so I'll keep you posted as to whether or not I hose the machines. ;)

Hey thanks for the message man! I'm a little unclear what all to copy/paste into my text file though. (sorry) As I said, new to all this stuff and not clear on a lot of it yet. Any chance you can...

Ok, so I've been looking all over the place for how exactly to do this and I've become so bombarded with information I finally decided I'll pose the question here. I'm not a programmer or anything...