Solved Robocopy Delete Old Folders By Oldest Date

I am working on a backup script to delete old folders from a folder.My backup folder looks like this (backup_mm_dd_year is a folder)

C:\backups\backup_5_1_2014
C:\backups\backup_5_2_2014
C:\backups\backup_5_3_2014
C:\backups\backup_5_4_2014
C:\backups\backup_5_6_2014
C:\backups\backup_5_7_2014
C:\backups\backup_5_8_2014
C:\backups\backup_5_9_2014
C:\backups\backup_5_10_2014
C:\backups\backup_5_12_2014

I was looking at using robocopy to delete folders older than say 7 days. That is, let’s say I run a script on day 13, it should delete any backup_mm_dd_yy older than 7 days. that means it should delete backup 5_1-3_2014.

I see that robocopy have a switch — /maxage:n — exclude files older than n days/date. Is there anyway to tell robocopy to simply check at the folder level instead of at the file level?

In essence, I simply want robocopy to check /maxage:n at the folder level instead of checking at the file level.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

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