Folder Age Cleanup Planner
Select a folder and get a tiered cleanup plan — which subfolders are entirely stale versus a mix of old and new — with space impact for each.
How to use Folder Age Cleanup Planner
- Start by providing the required input: Select a folder to plan cleanup for.
- Set the inputs and options shown here: Consider stale after (days).
- Run the tool with Build Cleanup Plan.
- Review the result or preview on the page and confirm it matches your input before using or sharing it.
Deciding where to actually start a cleanup effort
"This project archive needs cleaning up" is a vague goal until you know which specific subfolders are genuinely stale versus which have a mix of old and recent activity worth preserving. Tiering subfolders by how stale their contents are turns a daunting cleanup into a prioritized, folder-by-folder plan.
Why "Mixed" subfolders need a closer look
A subfolder where some files are old and others are recent is the riskiest category to clean up blindly — unlike a fully stale folder, which is usually safe to archive wholesale, a mixed folder needs an actual look before anything gets touched.
What counts as "stale"?
Whatever age threshold in days you set — any file whose last-modified date is older than that cutoff counts toward a subfolder's staleness tier.
Does this delete anything?
No — it only analyzes and reports; no files are modified or removed. Use the resulting plan to guide a manual or scripted cleanup separately.
What's the difference from the Temp File Scanner?
That tool flags individual junk files by name pattern; this tiers whole subfolders by age to help prioritize where a cleanup effort should start.