Hello,

I have a PS script that runs at 12am to clear down user profiles for our Citrix XenApp environment and looks like this:

Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Force

 

remove-item "c:\UPM\andyw\UPM_Profile\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportQueue\*" -recurse

remove-item "c:\UPM\andyw\UPM_Profile\AppData\Roaming\google\cache\Default\Application Cache\Cache\*" -recurse

remove-item "c:\UPM\andyw\UPM_Profile\AppData\Roaming\google\cache\Default\Pepper Data\*" -recurse

remove-item "c:\UPM\andyw\UPM_Profile\AppData\Roaming\google\cache\PepperFlash\*" -recurse

However there is another folder where I would like to keep the last 2 months of files and get rid of the rest how can I do this:

This is the folder:

C:\UPM\michaelc\UPM_Profile\AppData\Roaming\google\cache\Default\Local Storage

Get-ChildItem Path  C:\UPM\michaelc\UPM_Profile\AppData\Roaming\google\cache\Default\Local Storage Recurse | Where-Object CreationTime lt (Get-Date).AddDays(-60) | Remove-Item

you can use the -whatif to test it out

• Edited by Frederick Dicaire 17 hours 0 minutes ago

TB303, do you require an exact calendar definition of "2 months" ?

Or is 60 days good enough to approximate a span of 2 months?

• Edited by LarryWeiss 14 hours 49 minutes ago

FD, two comments:
1) since there is a space in the value of -Path, you need to wrap the value in quotes
2) your code will attempt to remove folders as well as files

Get-ChildItem Path  C:\UPM\michaelc\UPM_Profile\AppData\Roaming\google\cache\Default\Local Storage Recurse | Where-Object CreationTime lt (Get-Date).AddDays(-60) | Remove-Item

you can use the -whatif to test it out

• Edited by Frederick Dicaire Wednesday, July 29, 2015 2:10 PM

TB303, do you require an exact calendar definition of "2 months" ?

Or is 60 days good enough to approximate a span of 2 months?

• Edited by LarryWeiss Wednesday, July 29, 2015 4:21 PM

Hi Larry,

The last 60 days would be good

Interesting discussion of this topic is found at 

http://blog.danskingdom.com/powershell-functions-to-delete-old-files-and-empty-directories/
and
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17829785/delete-files-older-than-15-days-using-powershell

There are a lot of things to consider:
1) Restricting it to deleting files but retaining folders
2) Whether you want it to search subdirectories and delete files found there
3) Whether you want it to delete hidden files
4) Do you need it to be compatible with PowerShell 2.0
5) Do you need it to continue processing other files if it encounters an error deleting a file
6) Do you want it to create a log of which files it finds are over 60 days old and the success with deleting them

Be sure to use the -Whatif switch when testing to minimize the unintentional damage such a script can do.

• Edited by LarryWeiss 16 hours 58 minutes ago

Interesting discussion of this topic is found at 

http://blog.danskingdom.com/powershell-functions-to-delete-old-files-and-empty-directories/
and
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17829785/delete-files-older-than-15-days-using-powershell

There are a lot of things to consider:
1) Restricting it to deleting files but retaining folders
2) Whether you want it to search subdirectories and delete files found there
3) Whether you want it to delete hidden files
4) Do you need it to be compatible with PowerShell 2.0
5) Do you need it to continue processing other files if it encounters an error deleting a file
6) Do you want it to create a log of which files it finds are over 60 days old and the success with deleting them

Be sure to use the -Whatif switch when testing to minimize the unintentional damage such a script can do.

• Edited by LarryWeiss Thursday, July 30, 2015 2:12 PM