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My Excel VBA worksheet creates logs in a directory. Currently, the logs keep building up as I do not remove them.
However, now I would like to only keep the most recent 5. My logs are created with filenames as below:
<worksheet_name>_YYYYMMDD_HH_MM_SS.log
My current method of doing this job is to throw these logs into an array, sort the array, and keep only the first 5.
My question is this: Does anyone have a better method of keeping only the most 5 recent log files?
That sounds like a workable solution. Use the FileSystemObject library to gather all the log files, then loop thru them.
One option: you could try deleting based on Date Created or Date Modified, i.e. if the file was created over x days ago, delete it.
Also, I don’t know how important these files are, but you may want to just move them to a folder called Archive instead of outright deleting them.