net use k: \\unc\path\here username password
forfiles.exe /p k:\logs /s /m *.* /d -30 /c "cmd /c del /q @path"
net use k: /d

Hope this can help someone... this way you can run the script without mapping a drive everytime.

Are there any way to bypass the confirmation of delete in Windows 7.
I have some security cameras installed and they are recording to a hard drive, so I delete the videos older than a month, but every time I run this command Windows 7 CMD asks me if I want it to delete the files.
I tried running it from a bat file but it does not delete any thing.

Please help me out.

thanks
phyl

forfiles.exe /p C:\Temp /s /m *.* /d -30 /c "cmd /c del /q @path"
ERROR: No files found with the specified search criteria.

So... as per the error, no files were found in the folder that were over 30 (you used -30) days old. Did you definitely put files in there that were older than 30 days? If you didn't then the output you received is the correct one as there would have been nothing for forfiles.exe to delete. I have just copied and pasted your command myself having first created a C:\Temp folder and verified that everything is as it should be. If I place a file (I just grabbed a random one from my hard drive) in C:\Temp that is older than 30 days it does get removed. If there is nothing in C:\Temp older than 30 days then I correctly get "ERROR: No files found with the specified search criteria". So the program is actually behaving as expected isn't it?

Moving on, with reference to your first comment - you wish to tidy the C:\WINDOWS\Temp folder. OK, a couple of things here, firstly some running programs/applications use this folder to temporarily store log files. So, if you run forfiles.exe to try and clean C:\WINDOWS\Temp and there is a file that is open by the system or another program/application, then there is no way that it can be deleted, even if it does meet your criteria of being older than 5 days. Perhaps an easier way of describing this for you is: have you ever opened a Word document located your desktop then forgotten you still had the Word application open (maybe you minimised it for example) and then tried to delete the actual Word document? You would not have been able to - as the word process has a lock on the file. Well this is effectively what could be happening with C:\WINDOWS\Temp. As an example I have just checked my computer and I can see files in there that I know would not be able to be deleted by forfiles.exe or any other program unless the application or system process that has the files open is closed first.

The other point I would like to make is that in the C:\WINDOWS\Temp folder you may have some files with special attributes (such as R=read only files) set. It could be worth trying to modify your command to use a few of the other options that 'del' offers. To view a list, in a command prompt type del /? to get them with a description of what each of them does. For example, I would next try to test:

forfiles.exe /p c:\WINDOWS\Temp /s /m *.* /d -5 /c "cmd /c del /q /f /s @path"

C:\>forfiles.exe /p C:\Temp /s /m *.* /d -30 /c "cmd /c del /q @path"
ERROR: No files found with the specified search criteria.

I don't get it!!

Any help would be greatly appreciated, I can't seem to find anyone to do this for me and I guess this outside of my expertise.

thanks
pingram

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>forfiles.exe /p c:\WINDOWS\Temp /s /m *.
* /d -5 /c "cmd /c del /q @path"

Could Not Find c:\WINDOWS\Temp\History\History.IE5\*
Could Not Find c:\WINDOWS\Temp\History\History.IE5\desktop.ini
Could Not Find c:\WINDOWS\Temp\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\*
Could Not Find c:\WINDOWS\Temp\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\desktop.ini