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Powershell Delete items older than question

Hi,
I have a powershell script that removes files inside a folder older than a certain number of days. It works on some files and not others and I cannot figure out why it won't delete certain files. Here is the script.

$OlderThan = (get-date).AddDays(-2) #Change number to whatever is necessary
$ParentFolder = "redacted" #Change to necessary Directory

get-childitem $ParentFolder -recurse | where {$_.lastwritetime -lt $olderthan} |% {Remove-Item $_.FullName -force -Recurse}

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So the wierd part is if I run the first part of the script...It does list all the files I expect to be deleted. But when I run the entire thing with the -WhatIf switch, it only will delete one of the files. Please see the below image

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oBdA

In case you're still interested in a proper solution: you can keep the folder names. All you have to do is use the argument -LiteralPath with Remove-Item. The -Path argument supports wildcards, including a character set inside square brackets.
You should use the -File argument for Get-ChildItem (because you do not want to filter folders by date), and accordingly remove the -Recurse argument for Remove-Item:

$OlderThan = (Get-Date).AddDays(-2) #Change number to whatever is necessary
$ParentFolder = "redacted" #Change to necessary Directory

Get-ChildItem -Path $ParentFolder -Recurse -File | Where-Object {$_.lastwritetime -lt $olderthan} | ForEach-Object {Remove-Item -LiteralPath $_.FullName -Force}

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