Hi i am trying to run some scripts to flush out the files that is 7 years or more and getting the file size, so i managed to put up with some script online. for now, i want to exclude 1 sub directory and all of its contents be it folder or files within that directory.

$Path = "E:\SharedFolder\Security\HSSE"
$datetime = (Get-Date).AddYears(-7)
Get-ChildItem -file -path $Path -force -Recurse -Exclude "HSSE Website" | Where-Object {$_.LastWriteTime -lt $datetime} | export-csv C:\temp\testexclude.csv -NoTypeInformation

can give me some guidance.

Hello there,

I am not sure what guidance you are in need, is the above script not working?

The following script will delete items in my Downloads directory that are older than 6 months:

$Folder = "G:\Downloads"

Delete files older than 6 months

Get-ChildItem $Folder -Recurse -Force -ea 0 |
? {!$.PsIsContainer -and $.LastWriteTime -lt (Get-Date).AddDays(-180)} |
ForEach-Object {
$_ | del -Force
$_.FullName | Out-File C:\log\deletedlog.txt -Append
}

Delete empty folders and subfolders

Get-ChildItem $Folder -Recurse -Force -ea 0 |
? {$.PsIsContainer -eq $True} |
? {$.getfiles().count -eq 0} |
ForEach-Object {
$_ | del -Force
$_.FullName | Out-File C:\log\deletedlog.txt -Append
}

PowerShell Basics: How to Delete Files Older Than X Days https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/itops-talk-blog/powershell-basics-how-to-delete-files-older-than-x-days/ba-p/1255317

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Hi thanks for the reply.

the above scripts somehow, couldnt exclude that "particular folder" from the output.

So what i actually needed is the gather the information of the files that is 7 years or old, include the size, to see that how much disc space it will occupying before any deletion, quite a lot of online resources is pointing to direct delete, which i do not want to. All i wish is to only search and list the files that is 7 years old or more and list of the individual file size.

Thanks in advance.

Something like this....

$Path = "c:\program files"  
$datetime = (Get-Date).AddYears(-7)  
$files = Get-ChildItem -file -path $Path -force -Recurse -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue |   
    Where-Object {$_.LastWriteTime -lt $datetime} |   
    Where-Object {$_.DirectoryName -notmatch "Office16"}    
$TotalSize = 0   
foreach ($f in $files) {  
    $TotalSize += $f.Length  
    [PSCustomObject]@{  
        Size = $f.Length  
        LastModified = $f.LastWriteTime  
        Name = $f.FullName  
    }  
}  
""  
"Totalsize is {0}" -f $TotalSize      
"File count = {0}" -f $files.count