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Just new to power automate (flows), could anyone take me through step by step how i create a flow, that will go into a folder and subfolders and delete all files in each that are older than 14 days please?

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annetoal 1,934 Moderator on at

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outputs('Get_files_(properties_only)')?['body/value']

Filter:

item()?['{IsFolder}']

is equal to false.
Apply to each:

body('Filter_array')

Condition:

items('Apply_to_each')?['Created']

is less than or equal to

subtractFromTime(utcNow(), 14, 'Day')

Delete step:
File identifier:

items('Apply_to_each')?['{Identifier}']

This ought to get you started. If it helped, please mark it as a Solution.
Anne

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richhowe 31 on at

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Works perfectly. Thank you, one other quick thing on it, how do i set it to auto run every day?

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Happy to help. Please mark it as a Solution.
To make it run on a schedule, substitute a Recurrence trigger for the Manual trigger.

Anne

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sudosaurus 1,599 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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@annetoal how would you apply the same logic to delete folders? As the above will only delete files in folders but not the folders themselves.

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