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Find Files older than 6 months and then ZIP the Files

Hi All,

I have the script below:

$pathname = "C:\Users\kelly.garcia"
  $files = Get-ChildItem $pathname -Recurse -File | 
	Where-Object LastAccessTime -le (Get-date).AddMonths(-1)
  
		foreach ($f in $files)
		{
			$Name = $f.name
			#Compress-Archive $f -DestinationPath $pathname\$Name.zip
		}

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how do I tell the script to find files only files that are equal to or greater than 1gb?

Kelly Garcia

ASKER

also when I run the script I get this error:

Compress-Archive : The path '2013-09-18 10.57.31.jpg' either does not exist or is not a valid file system path.
At line:4 char:1
+ Compress-Archive $f -DestinationPath $pathname\$Name.zip
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidArgument: (2013-09-18 10.57.31.jpg:String) [Compress-Archive], InvalidOperationException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : ArchiveCmdletPathNotFound,Compress-Archive

$pathname = "C:\Users\Kelly.garcia"
  $files = Get-ChildItem $pathname -Recurse -File | 
	Where-Object LastAccessTime -le (Get-date).AddMonths(-1)
  
		foreach ($f in $files)
		{
			$Name = $f.name
			Compress-Archive $f -DestinationPath $pathname\$Name.zip
		}

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Kelly Garcia

ASKER

for testing I want find files just over a 1mb how do I input that, do I just type 1mb where -ge 1gb is?

Chris Dent

That's correct, yes.