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Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I search a computer for a folder, and return the folder’s complete path?-- AW Hey, AW. We know a lot of you have been sitting on pins and needles, waiting for this announcement, so we won’t waste any time: yes, the Scripting Son has officially been accepted by the University of Idaho. Granted, that was pretty much a f...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I list all the duplicate files (that is, files with the same file names) in a folder and its subfolders?-- GK Hey, GK. We have to apologize, but you picked a bad day to ask a question. That’s because the Scripting Guy who writes this column is working on his biography for inclusion in the “Madison Who's Who...

Hey, Scripting Guy! On my file servers I periodically want to check a folder to see if that folder or any of its subfolders have files that are no longer being updated. What I’d like to do is check each file in each folder to see if they’ve been modified in the past 90 days. If I find a folder in which none of the files have been modified recentl...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I’ve seen scripts that let you delete all the files in a folder that are X number of days old. I have a different problem: I’d like to delete files that are X number of hours, or even X number of minutes, old. How can I do that?-- DF Hey, DF. Did you see where some researchers are predicting that, by the year 2050, humans and...

Hey, Scripting Guy! In yesterday’s column you showed a sample script that mapped a drive based on membership in an Active Directory group; along the way, you brought up the possibility of a user belonging to more than one group. “Suppose you have two groups,” you said. “What happens if a user is a member of both groups?” You then said, and I quot...