Deleting Files

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Hi, i would like a system where on my computer, documents that are older than
a year would be deleted automatically. how would i go about doing this??

A BAT file possibly that runs once a month? it would be for a variety of
operating systems, win95, 98 and XP.

any line(s) of code that would do this??

can anyone help me achieve this.

regards and thanks in advance.

 

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Use Find, Files and Folders. Filter on Modified date.

However, you might want to consider that most of the files on your
computer are more than one year old. I would assume that what you want
to do is delete *personal* files that are more than a year old? If
you're an average user, most of those would be in My Documents.

Yes, there are ways to do it "automatically", but not a BAT file, I
don't think. A script would probably work better. However, unless you're
very careful, the first time you run it you're very liable to destroy
your system.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User
http://www.grystmill.com/articles/cleanboot.htm
http://www.grystmill.com/articles/security.htm

"Pinto1uk" <Pinto1uk@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi, i would like a system where on my computer, documents that are
older than
> a year would be deleted automatically. how would i go about doing
this??
>
> A BAT file possibly that runs once a month? it would be for a variety
of
> operating systems, win95, 98 and XP.
>
> any line(s) of code that would do this??
>
> can anyone help me achieve this.
>
> regards and thanks in advance.
>