The FileSystemObject VBA DeleteFile function deletes a specified file or files. The functions allows you to use wildcards (*) to delete multiple files matching a specific file path pattern which saves a lot of time for easy deletion scenarios.

VBA DeleteFile Syntax

fso.DeleteFile( filename, [ force ] )

• filename – The location names of file(s) to delete. You can use wildcards such as *.* to specify more than a single file matching the pattern.
• force – Optional. If True only read-only files are deleted. If False any files are deleted. False is default.

Examples

Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

'Delete file Hello.xlsx
fso.DeleteFile "c:\Src\Hello.xlsx"

'Delete all files with XLSX extension in C:\Src folder
fso.DeleteFile "c:\Src\*.xlsx"

'Delete all files in specified folder
fso.DeleteFile "c:\Src\*.*"

'Delete all files in subfolders of C:\Src 
fso.DeleteFile "C:\Src\*\*.*"