encounter sound

OK, for those of you like me who 1) run a Windows box, 2) Listen to a ton of podcasts when you have time to, and 3) don’t enjoy manually deleting all those old “Daily Breakfast” and “Buzz Out Loud” episodes that quickly fill up your hard drive, I have stumbled upon an AWESOME application! It’s called Delenda.

Basically, it watches folders on your hard drive and if files get older than n hours it deletes them. You can set it to instant-kill, move to Recycle Bin, or put in your own “Archive” folder. I’m all for the insta-delete, but your needs may be different. The trialware is my favorite kind: never expires, limits some of the features, but works completely. I could do without the nag every time it finishes, but I can deal with that. It’s not worth $60 for me to make it go away, but it very well could be for someone who wants to archive old documents automagically. ANYWAY, on its first run it found OVER 200 files that had slipped through my manual search-and-destroy operations, freeing up darn near 4GB of space. The best thing for geeks like me: you can set it up to run from the command line and thus from a batch script however often you like. Once a week is plenty for me, since I’m killing month-old podcasts. Those that are able to listen every day may want to put a shorter expiration date on their content.

The software hasn’t been updated since 2002 (as far as I can tell), so it may not work on your Vista machine. It’s running just fine on my XP box, though, and I couldn’t be happier about it!