The other day I started scouring the web for a VBScript to use for deleting files that had not been modified for a certain number of days.  I tried several, some of which were designed to delete files in a given folder, some that deleted certain file extensions recursively, but none that did it recursively by age alone.

When I say “age” I mean the DateLateModified property of the file object in question.  In this script, you specify the number of days (most accurate method), and the target folder, and the name of a logfile.txt that you want generated, as well.  With the log file you can look for OK on success and Failed if the delete didn’t work.

I put my scripts in a folder at C:scripts.  I called this one delete.vbs. 

To run this script, copy the code to your favorite text editor, save the file as a .vbs, open a command line to the directory and type “cscript delete.vbs”

Remember to edit:
1. Line 1 which indicates the target folder where files are going to be deleted
2. Line 2 which indicates the logfile that will be created
3. Line 3 which indicates how many days old you’re starting with… files with a DateLastModified OLDER than this date will be deleted permanently.

You should be able to access the logfile after the script runs.

Here’s the code: