PowerShell script to delete download folder content once a week

Question

I'm trying to make a script on a users pc that will run a PowerShell script once a week and clear out the contents of a users download folder.

i have tried the following scripts but cant get them to work.. Im not to familiar with PowerShell, so forgive me if the answer is easy.

I have tried the following scripts; they will work with users temp folder, but when I try to change it to downloads folder.

$CutOffDate = (Get-Date).AddDays(-7)
$AllTemp    = "$($Env:Downloads.Replace("$Env:Username",'*'))"
Get-ChildItem -path $AllTemp -Recurse | 
    Where-Object {$_.CreationTime -lt $CutOffDate} | 
    Remove-Item -Recurse -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

and

$CutOffDate = (Get-Date).AddDays(-7)
    Get-ChildItem -Path "C:\Users\*\Downloads\*.*" | Where-Object { $_.CreationTime -lt $CutOffDate } | Remove-Item

The first script throws errors and the second one says permission denied when I use a basics user profile. However if I use admin profile it wants to delete downloads content from admin user and not basic user. I'm unsure what do to - can anyone help?

Answer 1

$CutOffDate = (Get-Date).AddDays(-7)
    Get-ChildItem $env:USERPROFILE\Downloads | Where-Object { $_.CreationTime -lt $CutOffDate } | Remove-Item -recurse

This will delete anything over 7 days old in the logged in users download contents

$CutOffDate = (Get-Date).AddDays(-7)
$AllTemp    = "$($Env:Temp.Replace("$Env:Username",'*'))"
Get-ChildItem -path $AllTemp -Recurse | 
    Where-Object {$_.CreationTime -lt $CutOffDate} | 
    Remove-Item -Recurse -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

this will delete anything over 7 days old in users temp folder and do the same thing why are the different dont know but it works!