I need to write a script that will delete files that are 7 days old, and i need this script to run once every 24 hours. Where should i start???

if you cant tell i am a newb

well you can write script and schedule it to
run every 7 days on directory and it will
delete your "7" days old files.

batch files can help you with such task in
windows environment.

and you can schedule it with windows task scheduler.

can you tell us the location of the files you
want to remove and what type of files?

Thanks

Just say the directory is D:\ftp

The files are normally word documents and sometimes excel sheets. I guess that really doesnt matter, just anything older than 7 days needs to be deleted...

thanks

You will need a copy of Microsofts robocopy installed and c:\deleted should not exist.

Schedule this to run in task scheduler every 24 hours, it is one single command line

cmd.exe /c for /f "tokens=3,4*" %I in ('robocopy d:\ftp c:\deleted *.bat *.txt /s /minage:7 /L /FP ^| find /i "new file"') do del %J

How about
forfiles /p d:\ftp /m *.* /d -y /s /c "cmd /c del @path"

sorry, syntac error, should be
forfiles /p d:\ftp /m *.* /d -7 /s /c "cmd /c del @path"

What will happen to the folder if all the files in it are gone? What will happen if the folder is older than 7 days but the files are newer than 7 days?

The script was good, but then i came up with these issues...