How to Delete folder older than 7 days C# / NET

Question

I want to write some code that deletes all DIRECTORIES older than 7 days.

So:

Check directory : D:\this
If folder older than 7 days -> delete it from the system.

Similar? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2222348/how-to-delete-files-older-than-3-months-old-in-a-directory-using-net — Sully, Apr 26 '12 at 22:40
You can get them. They have a date created, the answer can be easily adapted with a truly trivial amount of effort on your part. — Tony Hopkinson, Apr 26 '12 at 22:45

score 18 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 26 '12 at 22:44

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You can lookup using the DirectoryInfo util

   DirectoryInfo d = new DirectoryInfo(dir);
   if (d.CreationTime    < DateTime.Now.AddDays(-7))
       d.Delete();

answered Apr 26 '12 at 22:44

Erre Efe

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last acces time are to be date created or? – 1244 Apr 26 '12 at 22:46
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This will throw exception "the directory is not empty" in case if the directory is not empty. Use `Directory.Delete(dir, true)` if u want to delete directory and all of its content – Nizar Nov 23 '17 at 08:05

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 26 '12 at 22:45

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You can use DirectoryInfo

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.directoryinfo.aspx

The voice of experience says to include sanity checks in your code that the directories you are deleting are in fact ones that you want to be deleting...

answered Apr 26 '12 at 22:45

Eric J.

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