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Power Automate Desktop - Deleting files with conditions

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Posted on by sid-poly 6

Hi,

I was actually trying to look out for a work around where we can delete files based on a condition. To be precise, I want to have the latest 5 files based on the creation time and want to delete the rest of the files from the folder, can someone help me with it? It would be great if someone can share me with the similar answers or guides related to the question

 

It is to be there in power automate desktop and not on the cloud flow.

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    MichaelAnnis 5,727 Moderator on at

    Get Files to %Files% sort by Last modified

     

    Loop starting at 1 ending at %Files.Count - 1% increment 1

        If %LoopIndex% > 4,

            Delete %Files[LoopIndex]%

        End (If)

    End (Loop)

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    achez15 2 on at

    Hi everyone,

    I have a similar question that I was hoping someone knew how to do.

     

    I would like to delete all files that contain specific text within their string from all subsites of a specific hub site.  The files in question are all named the following (XXXXX  and YYYY are unique within each subsite).  XXXXX_YYYY-Image-Workbook 

     

    Therefore I would like to create a power procedure to go through document library of each subsite and delete files that contain "Image-Workbook" within the string.

     

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