Cleanup files from specific path older than Threshold day

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Please Use this script to delete the files from the specific folder and delete the file which is older than Threshold day. It displays the file status after deletion.

This Script works well if run as a " System User"

Input:

Threshold_day = Mention specific days to delete the logs more than given days

Example:

Threshold_day= '1'

This Script run as a System User

Procedure's Instructions

path=r"C:\Program Files (x86)\ITarian\Endpoint Manager\rmmlogs" ## Here mention the path of th file
Threshold_day='1' ## Here mention number of days to delete file more than given days
print "Threshold days given in the script: "+ Threshold_day
print "****************************************"
import os
import time
import ctypes
import datetime
from datetime import datetime

class disable_file_system_redirection:
    _disable = ctypes.windll.kernel32.Wow64DisableWow64FsRedirection
    _revert = ctypes.windll.kernel32.Wow64RevertWow64FsRedirection
    def __enter__(self):
        self.old_value = ctypes.c_long()
        self.success = self._disable(ctypes.byref(self.old_value))
    def __exit__(self, type, value, traceback):
        if self.success:
            self._revert(self.old_value)

with disable_file_system_redirection():
    result=os.listdir(path)
    print '*********Cleanup logs **********'
    for i in result:           
        print "File Name: "+ i
        fpath=os.path.join(path,i);
        str_date= time.ctime(os.stat(fpath).st_ctime)
        d_date = datetime.strptime(str_date , '%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y')
        now = datetime.now() 
        file2_date=now.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")
        d_d2 = datetime.strptime( file2_date,"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")
        file1_date = d_date.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")
        print "File Creation date: "+ file1_date
        print "Current date: "+ file2_date
        file2_date= datetime.strptime(file2_date, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S").date()
        file1_date= datetime.strptime(file1_date, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S").date()
        date_format = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"
        day1 =  datetime.strptime("%s"%d_date, date_format)
        day2 =  datetime.strptime("%s"%d_d2, date_format)
        diff = day2 - day1
        days = diff.days
        j=(str(days))
        days_to_hours = days * 24
        No_days=(str(days))
        print "Number Of days from creation:"+ No_days
        diff_btw_two_times = (diff.seconds) / 3600
        overall_hours = days_to_hours + diff_btw_two_times
        No_hours=(str(overall_hours));
        if No_days > Threshold_day:
            try:
                    if os.path.isfile(fpath):
                        os.chmod(fpath,0644)
                        os.remove(fpath)
                        print "Deleting file:"+ i
                        print "Deleted Successfully"
            except Exception as error:
                print "The files working in another process:" +  fpath +"\n"

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