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specialFolderPath("documents")

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   ## Save some typing by puttin the path into a variable:
   put specialfolderpath("documents") & "/" into tDocFolder
   ## specialfolderpath() names do not come with a trailing SLASH!
   
   ## Get a list of all files in that folder:
   put files(tDocFolder) into tFiles
   
   ## Exclude all non txt fiels:
   filter tFiles with "*.txt"
   
   ## Now delete all the files in the list of files:
   repeat for each line tFile in tFiles
   
      ## Create full path to the files and delete them:
      delete file (tDocFolder & tFile)
   end repeat
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