I created this script to delete a folder which is older than two days. I needed this for a simple backup solution. I have a Powershell script that will backup a VM which runs in VMware Workstation. This script runs everyday and creates a folder with a date stamp. After a couple weeks there where a lot of copies of the particular VM and the free space of the backup hard disk became very low.

This script will remove all folders in the D:\vmbackup folder which are older then 2 days.

$Now = Get-Date
$Days = "2"
$TargetFolder = "D:\vmbackup"
$LastWrite = $Now.AddDays(-$Days)

$Folders = get-childitem -path $TargetFolder | 
Where {$_.psIsContainer -eq $true} | 
Where {$_.LastWriteTime -le "$LastWrite"} 

    foreach ($Folder in $Folders)
    {
    write-host "Deleting $Folder" -foregroundcolor "Red"
    Remove-Item $Folder -recurse -Confirm:$false
    }