Hi there, Thanks for taking the time to read this! I'm trying to write a batch file using MS/DOS on a Windows XP Professional system. I need to delete files from a directory that don't have the archive flag set, and are greater than 60 days old. I believe this would have to be a multiple step process using XCOPY and DEL, but just haven't been able to get it right. Any suggestions? Cheers, Tanya Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.

You'd have to edit a few items, but a batch file that does something of what you ask could be found , " Here " Good luck Huh.. MSI 845e mb 1 gb ram and a p4 2.4n running xp ,win 2000 advanced server and win 98 SE alot to learn and I know so little !!!!

Wish I would'be copied and pasted the text Can't seem to get back to the same page, It was a more involved batch file, and can't get back to it right now,, After also doing a search on this site, there were some simple batch scripts. that you may be able to modify to suit your purposes... tried a Google search, and came up with that site first, Hope it works for you the first time and while there ( if it shows up ) be sure and copy and paste the text from it to be able to save it,,, Otherwise you may not be able to see it again,,, Hopefully someone else may be of more Help.. MSI 845e mb 1 gb ram and a p4 2.4n running xp ,win 2000 advanced server and win 98 SE alot to learn and I know so little !!!!

@echo off set destdir=c:\temp\temp\temp\ for /F "tokens=2,4 delims=/ " %%f in ('date /t') do ( set mm=%%f set yyyy=%%g ) set yyyy=%yyyy% if %mm%==02 goto LASTYEAR set /A mm=1%mm% - 2 - 100 if /I %mm% LSS 10 set mm=0%mm% goto MOVEFILES :LASTYEAR set mm=12 set /A yyyy=%yyyy% - 1 :MOVEFILES for %%i in (*.*) do ( set FileName=%%i call :PROCESSFILE %%~ti ) set destdir= goto EXIT :PROCESSFILE REM ** The time will be dropped set temp=%1 set fyyyy=20%temp:~6% set fmm=%temp:~0,2% if /I %fyyyy% GTR 2069 set fyyyy=19%temp:~6% if /I %yyyy%/%mm% GEQ %fyyyy%/%fmm% ( if exist "%destdir%%FileName%" del "%destdir%%FileName%" > NUL move "%FileName%" "%destdir%%FileName%" ) set temp= set fyyyy= set fmm= :EXIT set FileName= set yy= set mm= You'll want to change the destdir to the directory where you want to move the files. Note, you can get rid of the line: set yyyy=%yyyy% Amazed and amused as always Comment from pwheatstraw Date: 01/13/2004 01:31PM PST Author Comment It seems to be moving everything not modified this month into the destdir, instead of leaving two months worth in the old dir. Comment from oBdA Date: 01/13/2004 01:32PM PST Comment How about robocopy.exe from the Resource Kit? It's in the NT4/W2k/W2k3 Resource Kit. The former two cost money, the last one can be downloaded for free (and the executable copied to wherever you need it), it just needs to be installed on an XP workstation (or a W2k3 Server installation, obviously); seems to run OK on W2k, probably on NT4 as well. Use an additional /L in the command line to just list the files that would be moved. robocopy.exe SourceDir TargetDir /minage:60 /mov /r:5 W2k3 Resource Kit Tools http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9d467a69-57ff-4ae7-96ee-b18c4790cffd&displaylang=en Have a look at robocopy.doc as well. Comment from SteveGTR Date: 01/13/2004 01:41PM PST Comment Sorry about that :) Try this: @echo off set destdir=c:\temp\temp\temp\ for /F "tokens=2-4 delims=/ " %%f in ('date /t') do ( set mm=%%f set dd=%%g set yyyy=%%h ) set yyyy=%yyyy% set /A mm=1%mm% - 2 - 100 if /I %mm% GTR 0 goto MOVEFILES set /A mm=12 + %mm% set /A yyyy=%yyyy% - 1 :MOVEFILES if /I %mm% LSS 10 set mm=0%mm% for %%i in (*.*) do ( set FileName=%%i call :PROCESSFILE %%~ti ) set destdir= goto EXIT :PROCESSFILE REM ** The time will be dropped set temp=%1 set fyyyy=20%temp:~6% set fmm=%temp:~0,2% set fdd=%temp:~3,2% if /I %fyyyy% GTR 2069 set fyyyy=19%temp:~6% if /I %yyyy%/%mm%/%dd% GEQ %fyyyy%/%fmm%/%fdd% ( if exist "%destdir%%FileName%" del "%destdir%%FileName%" > NUL move "%FileName%" "%destdir%%FileName%" ) set temp= set fyyyy= set fmm= set fdd= :EXIT set FileName= set yy= set mm= set dd= Accepted Answer from pbarrette Date: 01/16/2004 09:07AM PST Grade: A Accepted Answer Hey Steve, Whatever happened to the old standby... It's pretty huge, but it gets the job done error free (usually). :: ----------MOVEOLD.BAT------------- @ECHO OFF SET OLDERTHAN=%1 SET DESTINATION=%2 IF NOT DEFINED OLDERTHAN (GOTO SYNTAX) for /f "tokens=2" %%i in ('date /t') do set thedate=%%i set mm=%thedate:~0,2% set dd=%thedate:~3,2% set yyyy=%thedate:~6,4% set /A dd=%dd% - %OLDERTHAN% set /A mm=%mm% + 0 :LoopDate if /I %dd% GTR 0 goto DONE set /A mm=%mm% - 1 if /I %mm% GTR 0 goto ADJUSTDAY set /A mm=12 set /A yyyy=%yyyy% - 1 :ADJUSTDAY if %mm%==1 goto SET31 if %mm%==2 goto LEAPCHK if %mm%==3 goto SET31 if %mm%==4 goto SET30 if %mm%==5 goto SET31 if %mm%==6 goto SET30 if %mm%==7 goto SET31 if %mm%==8 goto SET31 if %mm%==9 goto SET30 if %mm%==10 goto SET31 if %mm%==11 goto SET30 if %mm%==12 goto SET31 goto ERROR :SET31 set /A dd=31 + %dd% goto LoopDate :SET30 set /A dd=30 + %dd% goto LoopDate :LEAPCHK set /A tt=%yyyy% %% 4 if not %tt%==0 goto SET28 set /A tt=%yyyy% %% 100 if not %tt%==0 goto SET29 set /A tt=%yyyy% %% 400 if %tt%==0 goto SET29 :SET28 set /A dd=28 + %dd% goto LoopDate :SET29 set /A dd=29 + %dd% goto LoopDate :DONE if /i %dd% LSS 10 set dd=0%dd% if /I %mm% LSS 10 set mm=0%mm% for %%i in (*.*) do ( set FileName=%%i call :PROCESSFILE %%~ti ) set mm= set yyyy= set dd= set thedate= goto EXIT :SYNTAX ECHO. ECHO USAGE: ECHO MOVEOLD X Destinatuib ECHO Where X is the number of days previous to Today. ECHO And Destination is the path to move the files to. ECHO. ECHO EX: "MOVEOLD 5" Deletes files older than 5 days. GOTO EXIT :PROCESSFILE set temp=%1 set fyyyy=20%temp:~6% set fmm=%temp:~0,2% set fdd=%temp:~3,2% if /I %fyyyy% GTR 2069 set fyyyy=19%temp:~6% :: +*************************************+ :: | This is where the files are deleted | :: | Remove the ECHO command to | :: | move. ECHO is used for test. | :: +*************************************+ if /I %yyyy%%mm%%dd% GEQ %fyyyy%%fmm%%fdd% ( ECHO MOVE %FileName% %DESTINATION% ) set temp= set fyyyy= set fmm= set fdd= :EXIT :: ----------MOVEOLD.BAT------------- pb Comment from pwheatstraw Date: 01/19/2004 12:45PM PST Author Comment Thanks to both pbarrette and SteveGTR for your help I wasn't able to get Steve's script to work consistently, but pb's script did the trick Well was able to get back there , and this time copied and pasted the text from there, You'll have to modify this a little , but should give you an Idea,,, of how to accomplish the task,,, MSI 845e mb 1 gb ram and a p4 2.4n running xp ,win 2000 advanced server and win 98 SE alot to learn and I know so little !!!!

Thanks very much for the suggestions! Can't wait to try them out... I'll post back with the results for anyone else who is interested. Cheers, Tanya Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.

thank you,, And can't wait ,to see your results... MSI 845e mb 1 gb ram and a p4 2.4n running xp ,win 2000 advanced server and win 98 SE alot to learn and I know so little !!!!

I was able to get the batch file to work fine, but took some more time investigating the robocopy.exe option as well. It turned out to be the better (and quicker) option for me with what I was trying to accomplish. It also allowed me to greatly clean up my existing batch file Thank you very much for your suggestions! You were a great help! Cheers, Tanya Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.