Search and move old files. Best program

[dany2010]

Hi,

We are looking to go through our shared drives and remove anything that hasnt been accessed in a few years.

We would like to be able to search for files that havnt been accessed and then move them to our archive area. We would however like to keep the file in the same directory. e.g. if a file came out of english\ks4 it moves archive\english\ks4.

Is there a bit of software to do this?

Many thanks,

Dan

[ChrisMiles]

You can do it pretty easily with any scripting language, heres an example in powershell. I didn't test it that much :P

function New-ArchiveFolder()
{
	param($SourceFolder, $DestFolder)
	
	$folder = New-Object PSObject
	$folder | Add-Member -Type NoteProperty -Name Source -Value $SourceFolder
	$folder | Add-Member -Type NoteProperty -Name Destination -Value $destFolder
	return $folder
}

# Array of archive folders to process for archving
$archiveFolders = @(
	(New-ArchiveFolder -SourceFolder "C:\Intel" -DestFolder "C:\Archive\Intel")
)
# Minimum age in days of files to be archived
$minArchiveAge = 30

foreach ($archiveFolder in $archiveFolders)
{
	if (!(Test-Path $archiveFolder.Source)) { continue }
	
	$sourceFolderUri = New-Object System.Uri("$($archiveFolder.Source)\")
	
	$files = (Get-ChildItem -Path $archiveFolder.Source -Recurse | where { !$_.PsIsContainer -and (((Get-Date) - $_.LastAccessTime).Days -ge $minArchiveAge) })
	
	if (!$files) { continue }
	
	foreach ($file in $files)
	{
		$fileName = $file.Name
		$filePath = $file.DirectoryName
		$filePathUri = New-Object System.Uri("$filePath\")
		$archivePathUri = $sourceFolderUri.MakeRelativeUri($filePathUri)
		$archivePath = "$($archiveFolder.Destination)\$($archivePathUri.ToString())"
		
		if (!(Test-Path $archivePath))
		{
			New-Item $archivePath -Type Directory
		}
		
		$file.MoveTo("$archivePath\$fileName")
	}
}