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Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Search For a Folder and Return the Folder Path?

January 14, 2008 Jan 14, 2008 01/14/08
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(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I search a computer for a folder, and return the folder’s complete path?-- AW(image) (image) (image) 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...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I List All the Duplicate Files in a Folder and Its Subfolders?

January 10, 2008 Jan 10, 2008 01/10/08
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(image) 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 (image) (image) (image) 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 ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Determine If Any of the Files in a Folder Have Been Modified in the Past 90 Days?

December 15, 2007 Dec 15, 2007 12/15/07
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(image) 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file servers I periodically want to check a folder to see if that folder or any of its subfolders have files that are no longer being updated.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...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Delete Files That Are a Specified Number of Hours Old?

December 12, 2007 Dec 12, 2007 12/12/07
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(image) 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(image) (image) (image) Hey, DF. Did you see where some researchers are ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Map Drives Based on Membership in an Active Directory Group When the User Belongs to Multiple Groups?

December 8, 2007 Dec 8, 2007 12/8/07
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(image) 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?” ...