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What I want to do is simply have a script that will run every 24 hours and will delete files from the folder specified without actually deleting the folder. Help would be nice and I would love you forever. Also, I have another folder in the folder that I want the files to be deleted from that I don't want deleted.

Here is what I want in a image type of thing...

-Folder 1 *Don't Delete*
-File *Delete*
-File *Delete*
-File *Delete*
-File *Delete*
---Folder Inside of Folder 1 *Don't delete*

For a machine or folder, MyBB attachments etc? Server? What OS? Do you have root? If yes, do you log off every 24 hours?

Server, Linux, I think I have root, but I am able to run Cron Scripts.

Pic of what I can see,

Crons are past me. Sorry

Ok, I have a new request.

I want the script to delete .png files every 24 hours in a certain folder.

well the command would be "rm /location/of/folder/*.png". I'm pretty sure you can set up a cron just using that. However if you coudn't you could make a simple script with that in it and just run the script.

Wouldn't be really hard.
Read up on php.net/readdir
and them i think the command to delete a file in php is kill or rm or so.
You'll find it, really easy

Set a cron for:

<?php
shell_exec("rm -rf /path/to/folder/*");
?>

If your using cPanel just set up a cron job with the following command to run every 24h:

php /home/yourusername/taskfilename.php

Where yourusername is your cPanel username and taskfilename is the name of your PHP file, put it in the highest directory of your account, above public_html

Thanks.
I set it to run every 6 hours. Hope it works.

Thanks again.