how to get rid of this error even the scripts works as expected

[goodywp]

Hi All,

I have below scripts to delete folders old than 15 days.

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forfiles /p "C:\CATA_AUTO\Report_Archive\Master\CHC" /s /D -15 /C "cmd /c IF @isdir == TRUE rd /S /Q @path"

It works and did the deletion but I also got these errors as below:

ERROR: The system cannot find the file specified.
ERROR: The system cannot find the file specified.
ERROR: The system cannot find the file specified.
ERROR: The system cannot find the file specified.
ERROR: The system cannot find the file specified.
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ERROR: The system cannot find the file specified.
ERROR: The system cannot find the file specified.
ERROR: The system cannot find the file specified.
ERROR: The system cannot find the file specified.
ERROR: The system cannot find the file specified.
ERROR: The system cannot find the file specified.
ERROR: The system cannot find the file specified.
ERROR: The system cannot find the file specified.
ERROR: The system cannot find the file specified.
ERROR: The system cannot find the file specified.
ERROR: The system cannot find the file specified.
ERROR: The system cannot find the file specified.
ERROR: The system cannot find the file specified.
ERROR: The system cannot find the file specified.
ERROR: The system cannot find the file specified.
ERROR: The system cannot find the file specified.
ERROR: The system cannot find the file specified.
ERROR: The system cannot find the file specified.
ERROR: The system cannot find the file specified.
ERROR: The system cannot find the file specified.
ERROR: The system cannot find the file specified.

Is any way to get rid of these above errors?
Thanks

ERROR: The system cannot find the file specified.

[aGerman]

I guess the error comes from working recursively with both FORFILES and RD. Sooner or later it tries to delete a folder which is already deleted because its parent folder has been deleted before. So, you have two options:
1) Check whether @path still exists using IF EXIST before calling RD.
2) Just ignore the error messages using 2>NUL.

Steffen

[goodywp]

Yes it works thanks