Three Ways to Quickly Search Your Computer’s Files on Windows 10 Chris Hoffman @chrisbhoffman August 4, 2017, 6:40am EDT Windows 10’s Start menu can search your files, but it seems like Microsoft is more interested in pushing Bing and other online search features these days. On Windows 10, you can use Command Prompt and Task Scheduler to automatically delete files older than a certain number of days to free up space and keep your files organized. The Settings app includes Storage sense, a feature that runs automatically when running low on storage to free up space. Alongside the ability to delete temporary files, you can also enable the feature to delete files that have been in the recycle bin or Downloads folder that haven’t changed in the last month.
Simply remove the trailing backslash from the path. And remember this tool is named forfiles! Also you use the /M option. To see the output insert an echo in front of del. – LotPings Jul 23 '17 at 16:53. May 22, 2018 The forfiles command was first introduced as an optional component of Windows NT. Beginning with Windows Vista, it was included in the standard Windows operating system. It's also available as part of Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 10. Windows 10 screen capture produces files all with the same name, appending a serial number. Capture.exe produces a.bmp file with the date/time in the file name. I wish to do this. I've investigated the FOR and FORFILES CMDs, but so far no success. This code will get the system date:-:: Get the date/time. – barlop Jan 5 '11 at 16:30. Note that contrary to what MS docs say, /m. in forfiles does not match all files. It will only match files whose names have an extension. If you want to match all files, you need /m. Or just omit /m entirely, since /m. is the default. This entry was posted in Windows 10 and tagged Delete Files Older Than X Days, Windows 10 Delete Old Files on December 1, 2017 by Sergey Tkachenko. About Sergey Tkachenko Sergey Tkachenko is a software developer from Russia who started Winaero back in 2011.
I'm looking to automatically delete files older than 7 days old with forfiles.
The code below works when I do it manually and respond yes to deleting the files. How can I incorporate the yes into this?
This is the output:
Forfiles Windows 10
Dennis3 Answers
You could try adding in a /Q /S, though be aware that this may not in fact do what you really want it to:
You are probably better off either using CSCRIPT (with your choice of VBScript or JScript) or PowerShell. Check out this answer from StackOverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1575493/how-to-delete-empty-subfolders-with-powershell
Here is some vbscript to accomplish a similar task:
This example removes all files in the folder 'G:db_bk_copies' older than 3 days without asking the users to confirm deletion (Are you sure (Y/N)?):
forfiles -p 'G:db_bk_copies' -s -m * /D -3 /C 'cmd /c del /a-s @path'
Verify that the files are not Hidden or system files.
If System try:
If Hidden Try:
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Forfiles is a useful windows command to select a set of files and then run a command on each of the files. It’s similar to the functionality of find command on Linux OS.
The syntax of the forfiles is as follows.
The criteria we can use to select the files:
Modified date or Number of days it was last modified from (option /D)
Search files based on name(option /M)
Look for files in subdirectories also (option /S)
Look for files in a specific directory (option /P)
We can use any combination of the above to select the required files.
Find all excel files modified 10 days back in the current folder and subfolders
In the above command @path is used to print the complete absolute path of the file. Similarly we can use below variables in the command part.
@file – Name of the file(includes extension)
@fname – Name of the file excluding extension
@relpath – Relative path of the file from current folder
@ext – Extension of the file
@fsize – Size of the file
@fdate – Last modified date of the file
@ftime – Last modified time of the file
delete all log files created in the last 1 month
Copy/Backup files modified after 1st Jauary 2015
Get list of all picture files with their size
Forfiles Switches
This command searches pictures of only jpg type. To search picture of different file type(jpeg, png etc), the command has to be triggered again.
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Get list of all exe’s and their last modified date
Example:
Have you reserved for the Windows 10 upgrade?If yes, I would like to inform that when the upgrade for Windows 10 is ready you will receive a notification for the download Windows 10 to the computer and you will have to follow the on screen instructions to complete it.Hence the download will not take place by default over Wi-Fi without the user’s confirmation.Refer Windows 10 FAQHope this information helps you. We appreciate for your interest towards Windows 10.To assist you better I would like to know the detail below. 
Rename file extensions using forfiles command
Read this: Rename File extensions in bulk
List all sub-directories in a given folder
If you want to print all the subdirectories in the current directory