I would like to know if it's possible within VisualCron (preferably without adding a script or external program) to delete old files with the following criteria:

1) Search for files to delete within subdirectories of the main directory.
2) To define the file modification date to look for (i.e. only delete files prior to a given modification date.)
3) Using a copy is ok if it can delete the source files.

I don't see a way within VC to look for files by a modification date. If it isn't currently possible, would this be considered for a new feature?

I moved this to feature requests.

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I run robocopy with some parameters in a batch file for this purpose.

I would like to know if it's possible within VisualCron (preferably without adding a script or external program) to delete old files with the following criteria:

1) Search for files to delete within subdirectories of the main directory.
2) To define the file modification date to look for (i.e. only delete files prior to a given modification date.)
3) Using a copy is ok if it can delete the source files.

I don't see a way within VC to look for files by a modification date. If it isn't currently possible, would this be considered for a new feature?

Thank you, we are using that now.

We are working on a general filter for all kinds of Tasks/Conditions which will be used in version 5 of VisualCron. Currently we are looking at the below values - please tell us if you need anything more or can think of anything more that would be interesting.

# file name filter
* File name inclusion mask - "*?" etc or RegEx
* File name exclusion mask - "*?" etc or RegEx
* Case sensitivity

# file content match
File content in text files - "?*" or RegEx match

# date modified or created filter ( do you need AND? )
* NewerThanDate x - specified date or variable
* OlderThanDate x - specified date or variable

# file size
* larger or smaller than x size

# file attributes
* including a list of attributes
* excluding a list of attributes

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besides specifying file date conditions it would be useful if one could specify a file age (days)
e.g purge all files old than 30 days

yes, we are looking at an alternative where you can specify a Variable that will be converted to a date. This way you can use any date value - and being dynamic as well.

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This feature is available in the latest beta 4.9.52.

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