I am in need of a script to move files older than 30 days to a specific folder.

I have a folder (and it's subfolders) on one of our Windows 2K3 servers that need a few things to happen daily. This will be a temporary storage location for some users. I need to run a script that will query all the subfolders and:

A. Move files older than 30 days from all subfolders into another folder on the same server.
B. It also needs to be able to delete files in that "other" folder older than 14 days.

I am unsure if this can be done in a single script or if it needs to be broken into two separate ones.

I borrowed a deletion script from this post:

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Programming/Languages/Visual_Basic/VB_Script/Q_23173209.html?sfQueryTermInfo=1+delet+file+script

I have edited it and it works just fine. I am a complete novice when it come to scripting, so I will ask the experts on this one.

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Using the previous example try this:

' Objective: To delete old files from a given folder and all subfolders below
' Created by: MAK
' Created Date: June 21, 2005
' Usage: cscript deloldfiles.vbs c:\dba\log 3
'      : It deletes files older than 3 days
Set objArgs = WScript.Arguments
FolderName =objArgs(0)
Days=objArgs(1)
 
set fso = createobject("scripting.filesystemobject")
set folders = fso.getfolder(FolderName)
datetoday = now()
newdate = dateadd("d", Days*-30, datetoday)
wscript.echo "Today:" & now()
wscript.echo "Started moving files older than :" & newdate 
wscript.echo "________________________________________________"
wscript.echo ""
recurse folders 
wscript.echo ""
wscript.echo "Completed moving files older than :" & newdate 
wscript.echo "________________________________________________"
 
sub recurse( byref folders)
  set subfolders = folders.subfolders
  set files = folders.files
  wscript.echo ""
  wscript.echo "Moving Files under the Folder:" & folders.path
  wscript.echo "__________________________________________________________________________"
  for each file in files
    if file.datelastmodified < newdate then
      wscript.echo "Moving " & folders.path & "\" & file.name & " last modified: " & file.datelastmodified
      on error resume next
      fso.MoveFile folders.path & "\" & file.name, "c:\destination\path\" & file.name
    end if
    
  next  
 
  for each folder in subfolders
    recurse folder
  next  
 
  set subfolders = nothing
  set files = nothing
 
end sub

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