I want to have a batch file that will delete all the folders and files in my Cache folder for my wireless toolkit. Currently I have the following: cd 'C: Users. How to delete a folder in a batch file forcely? How to force delete a folder in batch file? Delete zero sized files from a specified folder using batch file.

Illustrator Cs5 Sample Files. I am looking for a way of deleting files that are contained in a folder with a specific name and then delete that folder afterwards. I know there there is the forfiles command line that I can use to delete the files, I just don't know how to get the folder name into the path. The folder is named based on the date that it was created and I want to delete the folder that is 7 days old. The folder is formatted as yyyymmdd.

Basically I need forfiles /P 'C: backups [DATE 7 DAYS AGO IN yyyymmdd format]' /S /M *.BAK /C 'cmd /c del @path' and then I think to delete the folder after it would be forfiles /P 'C: backups [DATE 7 DAYS AGO IN yyyymmdd format]' /S /C 'cmd /c IF @isDir == TRUE rd @path' How do I fill in the [DATE 7 DAYS AGO.] for these. 1st - why you try to delete first the files, and next the tolfer? If you delete the folder first you are doing the same thing in less time. 2nd - I THINK You can't do that in Batch, not without errors, you need to extract (know) the calendar days for at least the 'X' years you need to use in your purposes, and Batch don't have any way to extract that info, or to be a math genious to know how to take the calendar dates of past years. So you need a realistic scripting language who can acces to the Microsoft.Time and data library and do the comparision.