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I need a Windows tool or script that lets me delete all folders that haven't been touched in x time. Specifically: If there is at least one file in this folder or any of its sub-folders that is "younger" than x, the folder must not be deleted. But all folders that don't have a file "younger" than x inside them or any of their sub-folders should be deleted.
Problem here is that the file system doesn't seem to propagate "last modified" to the parent folder, so simply using "last modified" on the top level folders doesn't help me.
Any ideas?
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Not sure if it is what you are looking for, but "forfiles" is still available in the Microcrap tech database and it could be set to delete (or archive) any files older than a certain date, or not accessed since a certain date on older windows machines.
Not sure if it works on Windows 7 machines (or whatever the latest version is these days)....but it works on Unix machines and on WinXP and Server 2003.
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Are you trying to set up a script to prune old porn downloads?
Hmm?
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Ptilk posted:
Not sure if it is what you are looking for, but "forfiles" is still available in the Microcrap tech database and it could be set to delete (or archive) any files older than a certain date, or not accessed since a certain date on older windows machines.
Not sure if it works on Windows 7 machines (or whatever the latest version is these days)....but it works on Unix machines and on WinXP and Server 2003.
Thanks, but I have already played around with forfiles a bit and there is at least no trivial way to let it do what I want. The problem is that I don't want to look at individual files, but keep the folder integrity intact. Either remove the whole folder because all files in it and its subfolders are older than x, or don't remove the folder and any of its files at all. But forfiles only lets me run commands on individual files losing the structure in which they are stored.
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Are you trying to set up a script to prune old porn downloads?
Hmm?
My old porn downloads are sacred!
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Not a clue then. I bet google knows the answer, just have to know how to ask the question, that's always the tricky part. Good luck.
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I will preface this by saying that because I am a hammer, everything looks like a nail to me....
I would write a quick and dirty C# app to do this. .NET has a DirectoryInfo Class that includes a LastAccessTime Property. Setting up the code to loop through directories and delete based on this property is not difficult.
A few quick decisions on UI implementation and I could have this coded in a weekend (more like a day tbh.)
Ps - I believe Visual C# Express is all you would need to write the app.
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You could hire some child labor in Malaysia to remote access your PC and maintain your files for just pennies a month...
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Taliesihne posted:
I will preface this by saying that because I am a hammer, everything looks like a nail to me....
I would write a quick and dirty C# app to do this. .NET has a DirectoryInfo Class that includes a LastAccessTime Property. Setting up the code to loop through directories and delete based on this property is not difficult.
A few quick decisions on UI implementation and I could have this coded in a weekend (more like a day tbh.)
Ps - I believe Visual C# Express is all you would need to write the app.
Thanks, but I'm sure someone already done this somewhere. If only I could find it.
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