Delenda automates old files deletion and moves files older than a number of hours or days to other archive folders helping in cleaning tasks for suppression of unwanted old files. You can set weekly days for purge time and a file duration parameter by folder in order to transfer files to archives based on a elapsed time.
 Delenda  can suppress files in one directory when they reach 7 days, transfer those that have more than 12 hours to another directory and move those documents not accessed during last 3 months to an archive folder on the same disk or toward a network drive. Once set up, let it do the work for you automatically.

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Main Features

The production of newspapers for example, generates lots of files that you need to regularly delete :  temporary editorial texts, news agencies stories, unused pages, etc.

Delenda daily purges the contents of a list of folders on a workstation or on a server including also the contents of sub-folders

Systems: 
Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP

The program will select files to delete or move using the file modification date or the file creation date an even last access dates

Option to delete all files of a folder only if all the files are obsolete (i.e. no files are deleted if there exists a file of the folder which is not obsolete)
Set daily hour for purge
and " keep time" for files in each folder; for example, you can erase files older than 24 hours in a folder, older than 48 hours in a second folder, etc.

Delenda also deletes  automatically Macintosh files stored on NT/2000/XP file server (Macintosh filenames can contain characters like: /, \, *, <, >, ", |, ?)

Allows you to send deleted files to Recycle Bin instead of definitive suppression if needed.
Da ily report log of deleted or moved files.
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Selection of folders for file purge or move is easy:

To add a folder in the list, right click on the list or select Folders main menu. Then select submenu Add a new folder. You can add the new folder before or after the selected folder. 

To remove a folder from the list, right click on the folder in the list or select Folders main menu. Then select submenu Remove the selected folder from the list. You can also select the folder to remove in the list and press DEL key. 

To modify a folder or the settings of a folder, right click on the folder in the list or select Folders main menu. Then select submenu Modify the selected folder. You can also double-click on the folder name in the list.  

  Folders settings

Files keep time by folder. You can delete files older than 12 hours in a folder, older than 48 hours in a second folder, etc.
You can enter the value that you need (in hours), for example to delete or move files older than 6 months.

Supports subfolders for each folder in the list. 
Works based on file modification date [M], file creation date [C] or alst accessed date.
3 methods for deletion tasks :

- delete old files immediatly 
- delete old files and move them in Recycle Bin 
- move old files toward another folder. 
When you select this option, you must specify a destination folder.

Logs 

Names of deleted or moved files can be logged into a log file per day

Check Logs menu (F1 key) opens the last Log file in your browser. Previous Log file can be displayed clicking the appropriate date.

Of course Delenda can also remove automatically old logs;  if you choose this option,  you just need to enter the number of days to keep log files using sub menu Logs/Remove Log files automatically.

 

Running Delenda

Once settings are configured you can purge or dispatch defined folders immediately, checking the option Purge now and stop and click on the Start button.

If the option Purge now and stop is not checked, the Start button begins the waiting process until the purge time. 
Old files are deleted or moved when purge time is reached. Waiting purge time, Delenda counts regularly the number of files in the defined folders (including or not subfolders according to the setting of each folder) and updates the Total files column.

 The Count/update cycle can be set from 1 to 60 seconds and allows to display the amount of files in each defined folder or tree. When the number of files is increasing (or decreasing), an up (or down) arrow is displayed in the Total files column.When a folder is unknown, label unknown is displayed in the Total files column. Counting and updating are not active when Delenda main window is minimized in Systray (but of course the program can delete or move files even when it is minimized in the Systray).

To begin automatically the waiting and counting process when Delenda is running, check the corresponding option in menu Configuration/Automatic start up.
Minimize the main window to put the program icon in the Systray and avoid to display the program in the Taskbar.
Double click on the Systray icon or right click and select Show main window to maximize the main window.

The program is designed to support Macintosh files using 'forbidden' characters for Windows : /\*<>""|?
Opened files can not be deleted.

Not registered trial version lets you run it with 2 folders and display a message when purge ends.

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Customize it :

Delenda offers several parameters in Configuration menu:

An option to delete read only files : check Delete read only files.
The possibility to delete the files in a folder only if all are obsolete : check Purge only if all files are obsolete option Using this option, no files will be deleted in a folder if at least one file is recent.
An option to specify the  purge time and the days of the week when it must be done : check Set purge time. A popup in the Set time between updates sub menu to change the time interval between screen update (1 to 60 seconds); The Total files columns for each folder will be refreshed, you will know if number of files in folders are increasing or not.