Netflix is the largest movie and TV shows streaming service with over 90 million subscribers. Recently, the Netflix app was updated to support download of movies and TV shows for offline viewing.
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In simple words, you can now download Netflix movies and TV shows on your Windows 10 PC using the official Netflix app for Windows 10.
Although not all movies and TV shows are available for download at this time, a good amount of content is available for offline viewing.
The Netflix app on Windows 10 stores all downloaded contents in the drive where you have installed Windows 10 (usually, it’s “C”). If you have downloaded tens of movies and TV shows, your system drive might be running out of space now.
Luckily, you can easily delete Netflix contents from your PC. Follow the given below directions to delete specific or all downloaded Netflix movies and TV shows from your Windows 10 PC.
Method 1 of 3
Delete specific or all downloaded movies and TV shows
Step 1: Open Netflix app. Click the hamburger button (located top-left) and then click My downloads to see My Downloads page with all downloaded movies and TV shows.
Step 2: Here, to delete movies or TV shows that you want, click the Edit (pen icon located top-right) icon. You should now see a checkbox on all downloaded contents.
Step 3: Select movies and TV episodes you want to delete from your PC, and then click the Delete icon located top-right to delete selected downloads from your PC. That’s it!
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To delete all, you can select all items and then click Delete icon.
Method 2 of 3
Delete all movies and TV shows at once
Step 1: Launch Netflix app. Click the three dots button (located top-right) and then click Settings to open Netflix settings page.
Step 2: Here, under Downloads section, click Delete all downloads to delete all downloaded movies and TV shows from Netflix.
Method 3 of 3
Delete all movies and TV shows from File Explorer
Step 1: Open File Explorer. Navigate to the following location:
C:UsersUserNameAppDataLocalPackages4DF9E0F8.Netflix_mcm4njqhnhss8LocalStateofflineInfodownloads
In the above path, replace “C” with the drive Windows 10 drive’s drive letter. Replace UserName with your user account name.
Step 2: Here, select all files using Ctrl + A keyboard shortcut, and then use Shift + Delete keyboard shortcut to delete all files. This will permanently delete all downloaded movies and TV shows from your Windows 10 computer.
Sooner or later, you’ll want to delete a file or folder in Windows 10 — yesterday’s lottery picks, for example, or a particularly embarrassing digital photo. To delete a file or folder, right-click its name or icon. Then choose Delete from the pop-up menu. This surprisingly simple trick works for files, folders, shortcuts, and just about anything else in Windows.
To delete in a hurry, click the offending object and press the Delete key. Dragging and dropping a file or folder to the Recycle Bin does the same thing.
The Delete option deletes entire folders, including any files or folders stuffed inside those folders. Make sure that you select the correct folder before you choose Delete.
Whether you share your computer with other people or you use it for a lot of downloads, it is nice to be able to clear out the download folder without having to manually take care of it each week or month, which is when an automated deletion comes in handy.
You can automate the cleanup of your download folder using a batch file that will delete files older than a certain amount of days. You can run this whenever you feel that you need to clean up your download folder or you can use the Task Scheduler to run it daily, weekly, monthly, etc.
Create Your Batch File
For this example, we will tell the batch file to delete any files that are located in the download folder that are older than 30 days. This is useful if you do things like Photoshop work, or writing where you download a lot of resources that you don’t need after an extended period of time.
The first step will be to open notepad. Once you have the program open, paste this string into the screen.
Remember to change the directory to match your computer. You can also choose any directory that is on your computer for the target. Once you have entered the string, save the document as a batch file.
Simply run the file to make sure it works and you will see that any files in your download folder are automatically sent to your Recycle Bin if they are older than 30 days.
Create a Scheduled Task
For the purpose of this example, we will schedule the automatic file deletion every seven days. Begin by opening the start menu and typing in “Task Scheduler” then running the application.
Alternatively, you can open your “Control Panel.” Under the “System and Security” section select the “Administrative Tools” option and then run the “Task Scheduler.”
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Once you have the program open, click on the “Action” drop-down menu and select “Create Basic Task.”
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You can give the task a name and description of your choosing. For this example, we will call it “Weekly Download Cleanup” and leave the description empty since the title is self-explanatory; then click “Next.”
From the “Trigger” section, we will choose to make the task a weekly action followed by pressing “Next.”
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Now you will need to select a time and day. Remember to choose a time and day that your computer is powered on. For this example, we will just choose midnight on Friday then click next.
Now you will see the “Action” screen. We will leave this as is, since we want to run a specific program every Friday; so you can just click “Next.”
Now you will just need to click on “Browse” and select the batch file you created. As you can see, our batch file was saved on the desktop and is called “DownloadCleanup.bat.” Once you have done that, just click “Next.”
The last screen you will see gives you a comprehensive overview of the task you created. Once you verify that everything is right, just click “Finish” to complete the task creation and it will run automatically according to your specifications.
Now that you know how to schedule auto-deletion of your old files, you don’t need to worry about how to clear up any old files from your download folder.
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