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Security kit creates logs, aparently some people use something called windows server instead of linux as their file & log servers :)

Recently I had a requirement whereby if a folder was larger than 30Gb (approx 95% of a partition) then the oldest files should be deleted, usually bash would be the answer but in this instance I needed to use a visual basic script.

This is what I came up with, it's not neat (cause I don't know vbs) but it works, if you want to use it find and replace "D:\Files" with your directory then find & replace "35000" with your required size in Mb (35000Mb is approx 35Gb) , save the attached script .txt file (vbs_script_disk_clean_up.txt) as script.vbs, then use task scheduler to run everyday, job done!

 

 
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