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How to list folders that don't contain recently created files

Hello,

I'm trying to do some housekeeping on a number of folders. I'd like to have a batch file that will list folders that have no files created in the last X number of days.

For example, I'd like to list all the folders that haven't had any new files added to it in the last 30 days. That way I can identify folders that are not active.

A simple command line or batch file would be ideal. It's on a Windows 2005 Server.

Anglian Learning Technical Services

I tend to use VBScript to do file system operations of this sort. Batch is fine for basic stuff, but VBS offers a much richer library of functions. Date comparisons is a good example.

Bill Prew

Are all the folders children of a common parent? So you want to search all the subfolders of a single parent folder?

~bp

Bill Prew

And what if there are nested folders, like:

dir1
dir2
file2-1
file2-2
dir3
file3-1
file3-2

and in dir2, file2-1 and file2-2 have not been changed in 30 days, but let's say file3-1 has been changed in less than 30 days. Would dir2 get deleted or not?

~bp

Bill Prew

Also, can you post up the output of two things, from a command line.

ECHO %DATE%

and then just a DIR on a couple of files.

I want to see the format of the date that your system is using.

~bp

charvett

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Hello,

Thanks for the follow up. There are no nested folders, only a list of one deep folders with files in each.

The date format is: Thu 05/19/2011

Thanks!

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