Clean-up task

The Clean-up task removes (deletes) files from a the source location, that match the criteria specified.

Any Clean-up task can be scheduled to occur over any interval or at any date and time desired, or at application/service start-up.

Whether an Clean-up task is scheduled or not, it consists of the following three parts:

Source:

Source Location:

The Source Location specifies the root folder from which files will be cleaned-up.  If the "Include subdirectories" option is checked, then all subfolders in the root folder will be included in the file processing.  If unchecked, only files that exist in the source location will be processed.

Source Files:

The Source Files section defines which files will be included in the task processing.

Files that match the specified file mask, file size, and file age criteria are included in processing, those that do not match the criteria are excluded.

eg. In the figure above, *.txt files that are at least 500 MB AND at least 6 months old are processed.

Clean-up Options:

Remove empty folders:

If selected, empty folders from the source location will be deleted as well.

Clean-up Notification:

E-mail format:

The clean-up report can be generated and sent in either HTML or plain-text format.

Send Clean-up Notification Report by e-mail:

If selected, an e-mail containing the clean-up report will be sent to the e-mail address specified in the "Recipient(s)" field.

Recipient(s):

Comma or semi-colon delimited list of e-mail addresses, which are to receive copies of the clean-up report.

Send Clean-up Notification Report to disk:

If selected, an file containing the clean-up report will be sent to disk using the file name and path specified.

Variable options:

Selected variables will be inserted into the file path.  This aides in creating dated or date-time stamped report files, to avoid overwriting the same report file each time a clean-up task is run.

Use absolute paths in report (don't use relative paths):

If selected, the report that is generated (either to disk or e-mail) will show full file paths instead of relative paths, which are the default.