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How to delete files older than 7 days using a BAT file

#1 Post by abhishekkumarrai3 » 03 Oct 2016 23:21

Hi All,

i have to delete files older than 7 days using a BAT file,

i have used below command but this command is deleting all files, but i want it should delete files older than 7 days.

forfiles /p "C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\Downloads" /s /m *.* /c "cmd /c Del @path" /d -7


kindly please help for this.

Thanks,
Abhi

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Re: How to delete files older than 7 days using a BAT file

#2 Post by ShadowThief » 04 Oct 2016 00:13

This may seem like a dumb question, but do you have any files in the folder that are not older than 7 days? I don't see anything wrong with the command you're using.

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Re: How to delete files older than 7 days using a BAT file

#3 Post by abhishekkumarrai3 » 04 Oct 2016 00:27

ShadowThief wrote:This may seem like a dumb question, but do you have any files in the folder that are not older than 7 days? I don't see anything wrong with the command you're using.



Hi ShadowThief,

Yeah i have files in the folder that are not older than 7 days, the issue is its also deleting the file which is only 3 days old.


please help me for this.

Thanks,
Abhi

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Re: How to delete files older than 7 days using a BAT file

#4 Post by SIMMS7400 » 04 Oct 2016 01:42

I use this option quite frequently :

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ROBOCOPY C:\source C:\destination /mov /minage:7
del C:\destination /q


ROBOCOPY supports UNC paths unlike Forfiles unless you utilize NET USE:

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net use Z: \\unc\path\to\my\folder
if %errorlevel% equ 0 (
    forfiles /p Z: /s /m *.log /D -7 /C "cmd /c del @path"
) else (
    echo "Z: is already in use, please use another drive letter!"
)

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Re: How to delete files older than 7 days using a BAT file

#5 Post by Squashman » 04 Oct 2016 06:38

abhishekkumarrai3 wrote:
ShadowThief wrote:This may seem like a dumb question, but do you have any files in the folder that are not older than 7 days? I don't see anything wrong with the command you're using.



Hi ShadowThief,

Yeah i have files in the folder that are not older than 7 days, the issue is its also deleting the file which is only 3 days old.


please help me for this.

Thanks,
Abhi

Could you show us the output of the DIR command before you run the FORFILES command.

Thanks

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Re: How to delete files older than 7 days using a BAT file

#6 Post by foxidrive » 06 Oct 2016 14:37

abhishekkumarrai3 wrote:
ShadowThief wrote: I don't see anything wrong with the command you're using.


the issue is its also deleting the file which is only 3 days old.


please help me for this.

It's been a while. Did you sort this out?

Squashman was trying to determine your problem too.

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Re: How to delete files older than 7 days using a BAT file

#7 Post by abhishekkumarrai3 » 07 Oct 2016 01:23

foxidrive wrote:
abhishekkumarrai3 wrote:
ShadowThief wrote: I don't see anything wrong with the command you're using.


the issue is its also deleting the file which is only 3 days old.


please help me for this.

It's been a while. Did you sort this out?

Squashman was trying to determine your problem too.



Thank you so much to everyone..

its been sorted out...

and sorry for late reply..

Thanks,
Abhi

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