Remove older files by last access flag

Question

Hi everyone,

I need a script (or comand, whatever) that remove old files from a File Server. But, I have to delete these files by "last accessed files" from before a specific date (before 01/01/2019 for example). I've used forfiles command to achieve this task, but forfiles exclude files just by their last modified date. The picture below shows the dates of a file:

I'd like to know whether it's possible to remove files by last accessed date or not. If so, which tool can I use for this?

Thank you

Answer 1

Hi,

You could do it with powershell script like this

[System.DateTime]$date="10/22/2020 16:10:23"  
$YourPath = "X:\YourPath"  
Get-ChildItem -Path $YourPath -Recurse | Where-Object {$_.LastAccessTime -lt $date} | Remove-Item  

This will remove all the files last accessed before 10/22/2020 16:10:23 in X:\YourPath including files in subfolders.

Best Regards,
Ian

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