Delete files that are older than 7 days

Question

I have seen some posts to delete all the files (not folders) in a specific folder, but I simply don\'t understand them.

I need to use a UNC path and delete all the f

Answer 1

Based in Vadim solution a more flexible approach Remember os.unlink(fileWithPath) removes everything in that folder older than X days, so be careful.

############ DELETE OLDER THAN X ############
current_time = time.time()
daysToDelete = 7
directory = '/absolute/path/to/folder/'

for dirpath,_,filenames in os.walk(directory):
    for f in filenames:
        fileWithPath = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(dirpath, f))
        creation_time = os.path.getctime(fileWithPath)
        print("file available:",fileWithPath)
        if (current_time - creation_time) // (24 * 3600) >= daysToDelete:
            os.unlink(fileWithPath)
            print('{} removed'.format(fileWithPath))
            print("\n")
        else:
            print('{} not removed'.format(fileWithPath))