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ituserit, on Friday 2 May 2008 à 12:45:32
Hello,


I hava folder that i want to periodically clean out old folders. for example a folder is created every day that looks like 20080304. I want to Keep the last 30 folders and delete any folder dated before that. I am just getting started using the SET and FOR commands and need a little help getting this one going.

Thank in advance,
Configuration: Windows XP
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yashmaur, on Friday 2 May 2008 à 15:09:01
Hai


Try This .. It Will Skip The Latest 30 Folders And Delete The Rest .. It Is In Debug Mode ... Remove The Echo from line 5 after "do" to actually make it delete the folders



:: --- BATCH SCRIPT START ---
@echo off
setlocal
set source=C:\source
pushd "%source%"
for /f "skip=30 delims=" %%a in ('dir /b /a:d /o:-d 2^>NUL') do echo rmdir /s /q "%%a"
popd
endlocal
:: --- BATCH SCRIPT END ---
   
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cyribis, on Tuesday 22 July 2008 à 18:35:22
Hai,

I wanted to use your batchfile that would skip over the last 30 folders created in a parent folder--and delete the ones older than that. But I'm having difficulty in doing so. Allow me to elaborate a bit on what situation I'm facing. On our SAN, we have a folder that our backup-to-disk files go to. I'm using Symantec Backup Exec--and I'm backing up a Sharepoint server, so it creates these IMG folders every day due to the GRT feature. Moving right along, I want to write a batch file that will delete the IMG folders older than say...8 days.
I tried to alter the batch file you created here to suit my needs, but it didn't work. Any help you or others could provide would be greatly appreciate! Thanks in advance!
   
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Achi, on Thursday 4 September 2008 à 03:10:57
Can you able to teach me or explain step by step the batch file that you created to delete folders?
   
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troyw, on Monday 22 September 2008 à 16:14:54
I used you batch file and it worked very well.
I just wanted to thank you.

Thanks,
troyw
   
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Mainak Ghosh, on Thursday 25 September 2008 à 12:24:05
Hi

Can you help in deleting just the latest folder from a set of folders?
Thanks in advance.
   
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percy8, on Friday 2 May 2008 à 16:55:35
wow thats awesome never thought that we can do such things
   
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rekj316, on Wednesday 28 May 2008 à 15:30:40
I am trying to create a batch file that will clean a mapped drive out nightly at a set time. I will attach the batch file to scheduled tasks on the Server to clean out the folder the drive is mapped to. Here is the basic set up

C:\Test (folder the drive will be mapped to)

net use \\serverxx\Test (the mapped drive to the Test folder)

My clients will save their files to their local L:\ that is mapped to c:\Test. The c:\Test needs to be cleaned out at 11:00 nightly. Any help will be appreciated.
   
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ram, on Tuesday 17 June 2008 à 07:12:46
dear sir
not useful this bach file
i need a file thah working autometic copy file & hdd ful then delete autometic
   
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varaprasad, on Monday 4 August 2008 à 21:53:49
Thank you verymuch. I will use this to delete the files older than 30days.
   
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Maria, on Friday 22 August 2008 à 15:45:36
Hi,

Can I please have a copy of the batch file that worked for you.
I am trying to delete my backup files from my :\backup folder that is timestemped 2 days older than todays date.
I have no luck so far..
Thank you!
Maria
   
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ITMan, on Saturday 6 September 2008 à 03:20:29
U might want to download a freeware Backup software called Comodo.

It backup the files in sub-folders and after making a backup of the file, it will delete it.

But be advice, the software will not delete the folders.

bye.
   
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TechnoThoughts, on Tuesday 23 September 2008 à 04:58:23
Hai,

Thanks for posting the delete folder batch file it helped me a lot tonight.
   
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javilan, on Thursday 16 October 2008 à 16:45:09
Thank you for this, worked like a charm
   
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Maria, on Friday 17 October 2008 à 15:05:22
Hi,

I am still looking for a code (possibly DOS batch file) that will delete all of the older files in the c:\bkp folder
and only keep the latest backup files that was named and timestamped by another batch file as 10172008_abc.bkp
as an example.
All of the backup files gets moved into this one folder from all of the servers.
I could move first the 2 days old files to another folder that I could create, but even than I would have to delete them from that second backup folder adventually.
Can you please email me the full code?

Thank you!

Maria
   
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Coddy, on Saturday 8 November 2008 à 22:32:16
Cool thanks I optimized it so when I clicked it it deletes what folders contents 1-7
or alows me to move it from one to the other.
   
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Online_ToughGuy, on Friday 21 November 2008 à 15:18:16
Guys, It is not working for me see below but I dont get any errors???? Any Ideas?
ECHO is on.

C:\Cameras>setlocal

C:\Cameras>set source=C:\cameras\cam01

C:\Cameras>pushd "C:\cameras\cam01"

C:\Cameras\cam01>for /F "skip=5 delims=" %a in ('dir /b /a:d /o:-d 2>NUL') do ec
ho rmdir /s /q "%a"

C:\Cameras\cam01>echo rmdir /s /q "1116"
rmdir /s /q "1116"

C:\Cameras\cam01>echo rmdir /s /q "1115"
rmdir /s /q "1115"

C:\Cameras\cam01>echo rmdir /s /q "1114"
rmdir /s /q "1114"

C:\Cameras\cam01>echo rmdir /s /q "1113"
rmdir /s /q "1113"

C:\Cameras\cam01>echo rmdir /s /q "1112"
rmdir /s /q "1112"

C:\Cameras\cam01>echo rmdir /s /q "1111"
rmdir /s /q "1111"

C:\Cameras\cam01>echo rmdir /s /q "1110"
rmdir /s /q "1110"

C:\Cameras\cam01>echo rmdir /s /q "1109"
rmdir /s /q "1109"

C:\Cameras\cam01>pause
Press any key to continue . . .
   
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 Online_ToughGuy, on Friday 21 November 2008 à 16:12:29
ECHO is on.

C:\Cameras>setlocal

C:\Cameras>set source=C:\cameras\cam01

C:\Cameras>pushd "C:\cameras\cam01"

C:\Cameras\cam01>for /F "skip=5 delims=" %a in ('dir /b /a:d /o:-d 2>NUL') do ec
ho rmdir /s /q "%a"

C:\Cameras\cam01>echo rmdir /s /q "1116"
rmdir /s /q "1116"

C:\Cameras\cam01>echo rmdir /s /q "1115"
rmdir /s /q "1115"

C:\Cameras\cam01>echo rmdir /s /q "1114"
rmdir /s /q "1114"

C:\Cameras\cam01>echo rmdir /s /q "1113"
rmdir /s /q "1113"

C:\Cameras\cam01>echo rmdir /s /q "1112"
rmdir /s /q "1112"

C:\Cameras\cam01>echo rmdir /s /q "1111"
rmdir /s /q "1111"

C:\Cameras\cam01>echo rmdir /s /q "1110"
rmdir /s /q "1110"

C:\Cameras\cam01>echo rmdir /s /q "1109"
rmdir /s /q "1109"

C:\Cameras\cam01>pause
Press any key to continue . . .

forgot to add me email address
   
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