I'm looking to automatically delete files older than 7 days old with forfiles.
The code below works when I do it manually and respond yes to deleting the files. How can I incorporate the yes into this?
This is the output:
E:\>forfiles -p "H:\SHARED\Scans" -s -m *.* -d -7 -c "cmd /c del @path"
Could Not Find H:\SHARED\Scans\.DS_Store
H:\SHARED\Scans\XXX\DOC006.XSM\*, Are you sure (Y/N)?
You could try adding in a /Q /S, though be aware that this may not in fact do what you really want it to:
/Q Quiet mode, do not ask if ok to delete on global wildcard
/S Delete specified files from all subdirectories
E:\forfiles -p "H:\SHARED\Scans" -s -m . -d -7 -c "cmd /c del /Q /S @path"
You are probably better off either using CSCRIPT (with your choice of VBScript or JScript) or PowerShell. Check out this answer from StackOverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1575493/how-to-delete-empty-subfolders-with-powershell
Here is some vbscript to accomplish a similar task:
Dim fso, folder, folders
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set parent = fso.GetFolder("H:\SHARED\Scans")
Set folders = parent.SubFolders
' delete any folder older than 7 days
For Each folder in folders
If Abs(DateDiff("d",Date, folder.DateCreated)) > 7 Then
folder.Delete(True) 'force delete
End If
Next
H:\SHARED\Scans\ seems the .DS_STORE is getting appended to the current folder @PHLiGHT
This example removes all files in the folder "G:\db_bk_copies" older than 3 days without asking the users to confirm deletion (Are you sure (Y/N)?):
forfiles -p "G:\db_bk_copies" -s -m * /D -3 /C "cmd /c del /a-s @path"
Verify that the files are not Hidden or system files.
If System try:
forfiles -p "H:\SHARED\Scans" -s -m *.* -d -7 -c "cmd /c del /a-s @path"
If Hidden Try:
forfiles -p "H:\SHARED\Scans" -s -m *.* -d -7 -c "cmd /c del /a-h @path"
/m *.*inforfilesdoes not match all files. It will only match files whose names have an extension. If you want to match all files, you need/m *. Or just omit/mentirely, since/m *is the default.