Deleting old files except four.

Asked by: DGWOLF

Hello,

I wan to erase files older than 30 days except four in my windows 2003 server. I find the following script in other post, but i don't now how to modify it for do file exceptions.

Const ForAppending = 8
strSourceFolder = "C:\Testing"
strLog = "C:\FilesRemoved.Log"

Dim objFSO : Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Dim objOutputFile : Set objOutputFile = objFSO.CreateTextFile(Replace(strLog, ".Log", Month(Date) & Day(Date) & Year(Date) & "_.Log"))

With objOutputFile
.WriteLine "==========================="
.WriteLine "Removal summary for " & Date
.WriteLine "=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-="
.WriteLine
End With

'intDel is the number of days old you want to check for. I set it to 1 for testing.
intDel = 30
dtOld = DateAdd("d", -intDel, Date)

Set objFolders = objFSO.GetFolder(strSourceFolder)
'Get the files in the current folder

For Each fil In objFolders.Files
'If a file exists that hasn't been accessed in intDel days or more, delete it
If DateDiff("d", fil.DateCreated, dtOld) >= intDel Then
objOutputFile.WriteLine fil.Path & " was removed at " & Now
objFSO.DeleteFile fil.Path
End If
Next

With objOutputFile
.WriteLine
.WriteLine "Process completed at " & Now
.WriteLine "==========================="
.Close
End With

Set objOutputFile = Nothing
Set objFSO = Nothing
wscript.quit

Thanks for your help.

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Try this, it's not tested but should lead you to an answer:

CONST adFldIsNullable = &H00000020 
CONST adVarChar = 200 
CONST adDate = 7 
CONST adOpenDynamic = 2 
CONST adUseClient = 3 
 
Set fso = CreateObject("scripting.filesystemobject") 
Set folder = fso.getFolder("C:\EddieADS\Office_SQL\files") 
Set intDel = 30
Set dtOld = DateAdd("d", -intDel, Date)
 
if folder.files.count > 0 then 
    Set rs = CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset") 
 
    With rs 
        .CursorLocation = adUseClient 
        .CursorType = adOpenDynamic 
        .Fields.Append "filename", adVarChar, 255, adFldIsNullable 
        .Fields.Append "filemod", adDate, 32, adFldIsNullable 
        .open 
 
        for each file in folder.Files 
            .AddNew 
            .Fields("filename") = file.Name 
            .Fields("filemod") = file.dateLastModified 
            .update 
        next 
 
        ' list oldest first 
 
        .Sort = "filemod ASC" 
        .MoveFirst
        do while not .eof
          if DateDiff("d", rs.fields("filemod"), dtOld) >= intDel Then
            .Delete
          .MoveNext
        loop
        .Movefirst
 
        for each file in folder.Files 
          if rs.Find("filename = " & file.Name) then
              fso.DeleteFile(file.Path)
          end if 
        next 
        .close 
    end with 
    set rs = nothing 
end if 
set folder = nothing 
set fso = nothing

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