Hi, You can create a seperate project fpr that; because you just only need to delete the files after the use.
SO create Console application or Windows app.
If you want you can create a job for this application to run the task daily in specific time.
Here is the Example i did. I used LinQ Concept to delete temp files based on name and also based of file creation date
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.IO;
using System.Net.Mail;
namespace TaskSchedulerToDeleteTempFiles
{
public class GenericsToDelete
{
public int count;
static void Main(string[] args)
{
int count = 0;
string Path= @"C:\Users\Ajay_Paritala\Desktop\aparitala\deletebackup\backup4";
clsCommunicatin CommObj = new clsCommunicatin();
using (CommObj)
{
try
{
var query = from o in Directory.GetFiles(Path, "*_*_*_*_*.*", SearchOption.AllDirectories)
let FileName = new FileInfo(o)
where (FileName.Name.StartsWith(@"Bayonne") || FileName.Name.StartsWith(@"StJoseph") || FileName.Name.StartsWith(@"BronxLeb-MLK") || FileName.Name.StartsWith(@"MtSinai") || FileName.Name.StartsWith(@"BronxLeb-ED") || FileName.Name.StartsWith(@"KJMC") || FileName.Name.StartsWith(@"KJMC-ED") || FileName.Name.StartsWith(@"Hoboken") || FileName.Name.StartsWith(@"Christ") || FileName.Name.StartsWith(@"NYP"))
&& FileName.CreationTime.Date <= DateTime.Now.AddDays(-1)
select FileName.FullName;
foreach (var item in query)
{
count++;
File.Delete(item);
}
//CommObj.sendMail(count + " Files get deleted on " + System.DateTime.Now);
Console.WriteLine("{0} Files get deleted on {1}", count, System.DateTime.Now);
Console.ReadLine();
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
CommObj.sendMail(ex.Message.ToString());
}
}
}
}
public class clsCommunicatin: IDisposable
{
public clsCommunicatin()
{
// Default Constructor
}
delegate void delegateSendMail(string mbody);
delegateSendMail sendmail = delegate(string body)
{
try
{
MailMessage mail = new MailMessage();
SmtpClient SmtpServer = new SmtpClient("mail.india.com");
mail.From = new MailAddress("aparitala@india.com");
mail.To.Add("aparitala@india.com");
mail.Subject = "Automatic File Deletion process Status";
mail.Body = body;
SmtpServer.Send(mail);
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
ex.Message.ToString();
}
};
public void sendMail(string mBody)
{
sendmail(mBody);
}
}
}