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Posted on by richhowe

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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sudosaurus 1,597 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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Re: Step by Step (delete files older than)

@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.
annetoal 1,934 Super User 2025 Season 1 on at

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Re: Step by Step (delete files older than)

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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Re: Step by Step (delete files older than)

Works perfectly. Thank you, one other quick thing on it, how do i set it to auto run every day?
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annetoal 1,934 Super User 2025 Season 1 on at

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Re: Step by Step (delete files older than)

From:

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