Removing files from a directory which are over 24 hours old?

Feek · 9 Apr 2011 at 11:22

I have a directory full of images which gets updated every six minutes and I automatically upload that to a Picasa gallery.

I want to automatically delete files from that directory which are over 24 hours old - Picasa will then automatically remove them from the gallery.

Does anyone know of a free tool which will monitor a directory contents and delete files over a certain age?

Feek · 9 Apr 2011 at 11:45

Thanks, but what do I actually do with that code?

Feek · 9 Apr 2011 at 12:07

OK, all done, thanks. I hope that a setting of -1 days will do the job.

Feek · 9 Apr 2011 at 12:18

Or leave it at n and set it to -1440 and that should be the full 24 hours?

Feek · 9 Apr 2011 at 12:31

.. or not. With it set to n and -5 for testing, it doesn't do anything at all.

Feek · 9 Apr 2011 at 14:46

That works, thanks.

One thing I've just noticed, there's a hidden .ini file in the same directory which I don't want to be deleted. Is there a simple tweak to that script to only have it remove .jpg files?

Feek · 9 Apr 2011 at 15:07

Oh, I'm blind aren't I. The exclude lines are already there!

Feek · 9 Apr 2011 at 16:14

Yup, looks it