How to delete 100's of JSON files from 100's of folders at once?

[Brandon_Byrnes]

I just downloaded my whole Google Photos archive, which included probably 300 folders, some folders with only 1 photo in it, and every folder contains a JSON file for every jpg. How do I delete these JSON files from all the folders without having to actually go into every folder and selecting them to delete, because that will take HOURS? I am running Windows 10 Pro. Oh and I’m pretty sure there is about 7,000 jpg’s so that means about 7000 JSON files.

[veeg]

Hello

Hopefully some of our members will chime in soon..

@Bruce @Rustys

[Rustys]

1. Uncompressed the file that was downloaded
2. Select the directory that they files are in
3. Do a search for the JSON files
4. Once the search is complete (may take a while) select the files and delete

[Bruce]

start a command prompt and change the directory to the folder containing that photo archive.
then type del *.json /s
that will find and delete all files with a json extension from all subdirectories.

[Brandon_Byrnes]

Great guys thanks for the help, all json files are now deleted.