Also, I'm a big fan of cygwin, for giving me my old fun UNIX utilities on windows. However, this is really pretty useless for the OP, since he said "no third party utilities" Matt -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Aragon, Gabriel (GE, Corporate, consultant) Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 2:50 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: RMAN delete obsolete Wow, long time no working with robocopy, anyway I think Roger cant use it as per his comments. Roger, you can create a small VBS code for this, not an expert, did it some time ago, a simple google search will give you answer.. http://www.google.com.mx/search?hl=es&q=vbs+%2Bdelete+files+older+than&m eta= -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l