Deleting Contents of Folder

Would anybody give me some direction on generating a script that would scroll
through a drive on a server and delete the contents of a users folder (leave
the folder there) if the folder hasn't been accessed in a certain ammount of
time?

Location example:

d:\users\USERNAME

"Jason Carter" <JasonCarter@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:7BA18BD6-34D8-48D0-A604-2C8C3C480D41@xxxxxx It depends on what you mean by "accessed" but if you mean when the user last
wrote anything to the folder then you can use something like this:

$UserDir = d:\users\<username>
$DateLimit = (get-date).AddDays(-30)
$newItems = Get-ChildItem $UserDir\* -rec | Where {$_.LastWriteTime -gt
$DateLimit}
if (!$newItems) {
remove-item $UserDir\* -r -whatif
}

Remove the -whatif to actually do the delete.

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Keith

Thats what I meant. Thanks a lot. Is there anyway you can do this without
specifying the username? Just process the whole Users directory with this
script for each folder?

"Keith Hill [MVP]" wrote:

Using the * will do this correct: d:\users\* ?

"Jason Carter" wrote:

"Jason Carter" <JasonCarter@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:C984DEA3-CC62-4758-9592-C66841318909@xxxxxx Yep.

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Keith

"Keith Hill [MVP]" <r_keith_hill@xxxxxx_spam_I> wrote in message
news:B81EBA3C-33AB-47E1-BBC3-C17EF2F3394B@xxxxxx Oops. You didn't want to delete the user's folder so try this instead:

$DateLimit = (get-date).AddDays(-30)
foreach ($UserDir in (get-childitem d:\users | where {$_.PSIsContainer})) {
$newItems = Get-ChildItem $UserDir -rec | Where {$_.LastWriteTime -gt
$DateLimit}
if (!$newItems) {
remove-item $UserDir\* -r -whatif
}
}

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Keith

Alright thanks. And now I am starting to understand this stuff by looking at
some code.

"Keith Hill [MVP]" wrote:

I am going to try to modify it to delete subfolders too.

"Keith Hill [MVP]" wrote:

In testing, what I am seeing here is that all the sub files are getting
deleted, which are making the sub folders last write time change so the
actually subfolders are not getting deleted if they are present. Would I add
a remove-item $UserDir\*\* -force at the end?

"Jason Carter" wrote:

"JSC" <JSC@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:B71B370C-D031-4DFF-B0A0-F6784A755286@xxxxxx The -r or -recurse should take of recursively deleting. You might want to
use -force just to take care of any read-only files.

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Keith