TrimTree

The more you use a PC, either for business or personal reasons, it should come as no surprise if you eventually run out of disk space, since you can lose track of all the things you copy, download or install on your PC. With that situation in mind, a program that can remove files indiscriminately as quick as possible can be extremely useful, one such program is TrimTree.

Strictly from a functional standpoint, the app is nothing more than a bulk file deleter that uses the file's age as a standard of whether it should be deleted or not. The UI is designed to be as simple as possible, although this simplicity is a bit deceiving since there are no button or menus to make it a beginner friendly, app, instead choosing to look more like a console that functions based on command lines. This approach allows a bit more flexibility in regards to file deletion since you can insert any aspect of the file you need to be deleted to be taken into consideration, including age, format, root folder and location etc.

You typical command format looks something like:   TrimTree  <days>  <root-folder>  <file-spec>  [<file-spec>], one good example being  TrimTree  2  C:\MSG\images\  *-msg-ch06.*  *-msg-ch07.* If the files are older than the age specified (2 days in the examples above), the files will be deleted.  Read-only files will not be deleted. One thing worth noting is that files under 5 minutes old cannot be targeted for deletion, the age is based using the PC's internal clock and the time for comparison in days is midnight UTC, not the current time.

While there are plenty of bulk file deleters out there, few offer the flexibility that TrimTree offers, especially thanks to the command line-based controls.