DELETE FILES AND FOLDERS OLDER THAN – WITH A POWERSHELL SCRIPT

Now or Then every Sys Admin needs to delete old Tempfiles or Archives with too much Junkfiles.

I created a Powershell script which deletes old Files and Folders older than a certain time.

I use it within a Scheduledtask and run it every Month. And here it ist, have fun with it 😉

$date = (Get-Date).AddDays(-30)
$path = "C:\inetpub\wwwroot\SOLIDWORKSPDM\Web2\Content\tempFiles"

# Delete files older than the $date todaysdate minus here 30 days
Get-ChildItem -Path $path -Recurse -Force | Where-Object { !$_.PSIsContainer -and $_.CreationTime -lt $date } | Remove-Item -Force

# Delete any empty directories left behind after deleting the old files
Get-ChildItem -Path $path -Recurse -Force | Where-Object { $_.PSIsContainer -and (Get-ChildItem -Path $_.FullName -Recurse -Force | Where-Object { !$_.PSIsContainer }) -eq $null } | Remove-Item -Force -Recurse

$date = (Get-Date).AddDays(-30)

$path = "C:\inetpub\wwwroot\SOLIDWORKSPDM\Web2\Content\tempFiles"

# Delete files older than the $date todaysdate minus here 30 days

Get-ChildItem -Path $path -Recurse -Force | Where-Object { !$_.PSIsContainer -and $_.CreationTime -lt $date } | Remove-Item -Force

# Delete any empty directories left behind after deleting the old files

Get-ChildItem -Path $path -Recurse -Force | Where-Object { $_.PSIsContainer -and (Get-ChildItem -Path $_.FullName -Recurse -Force | Where-Object { !$_.PSIsContainer }) -eq $null } | Remove-Item -Force -Recurse

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