Lesson 5: Deleting Temporary Files Once a Week
In this lesson we shall teach nnCron to perform some routine work: each Monday night it will remove from Windows temporary directory (c:\windows\temp) all files that more than 2 days old.
First of all, we right-click on the nnCron icon in system tray and select New Task in the menu.
In Task name field we type, for instance, "Temp_Cleanup".
On Time and Options tab we specify the schedule: weekly, 00:30, every Monday.
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On the Action tab we select Purge directory from the drop-down menu, and specify what directory should be purged and the age of files, i.e. how old the files should be to be deleted.
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As usual, we check the source text of our task on the Advanced tab.
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