Summary: Dr. Scripto needs to gather all log files older than 90 days and move them to an archive location.
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An Archival Atrocity
Dr. Scripto is in a tizzy! It seems that someone has allowed a series of application log files to pile up for around two years, and they’re starting to put the pinch on free disk space on a server. Your job is to help get the old files off to a new location.
The log files are located in C:\Application\Log. There are three applications that write logs here, and each uses its own subfolder. For example, C:\Application\Log\App1, C:\Application\Log\OtherApp, and C:\Application\Log\ThisAppAlso. Within those subfolders, the filenames are random GUIDs with a .log filename extension. After they are created on disk, the files are never touched again by the applications.
Your goal is to grab all of the files older than 90 days and move them to \\NASServer\Archives. You need to maintain the subfolder structure, so that files from C:\Application\Log\App1 get moved to \\NASServer\Archives\App1, and so forth.
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Ed Wilson, Microsoft Scripting Guy