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@JohnKuntz-6979

Apologies for the delayed response. For “Get-AzStorageFile”:
• Without “-Path”: It will list file/FileDir which directly in a share/fileDir. To list recursively in a share/FileDir, you need to call it recursively.
• With “-Path”: It will get an instance of a directory or file (with file properties like LMT) in the specified path.

The following script will list files/FileDir recursively in a file share, and delete the files older than 14 days.

 $ctx = New-AzStorageContext -StorageAccountName $accountName -StorageAccountKey $key
 $shareName = <shareName>
    
 $DirIndex = 0
 $dirsToList = New-Object System.Collections.Generic.List[System.Object]
    
 # Get share root Dir
 $shareroot = Get-AzStorageFile -ShareName $shareName -Path . -context $ctx 
 $dirsToList += $shareroot 
    
 # List files recursively and remove file older than 14 days 
 While ($dirsToList.Count -gt $DirIndex)
 {
     $dir = $dirsToList[$DirIndex]
     $DirIndex ++
     $fileListItems = $dir | Get-AzStorageFile
     $dirsListOut = $fileListItems | where {$_.GetType().Name -eq "AzureStorageFileDirectory"}
     $dirsToList += $dirsListOut
     $files = $fileListItems | where {$_.GetType().Name -eq "AzureStorageFile"}
    
     foreach($file in $files)
     {
         # Fetch Attributes of each file and output
         $task = $file.CloudFile.FetchAttributesAsync()
         $task.Wait()
    
         # remove file if it's older than 14 days.
         if ($file.CloudFile.Properties.LastModified -lt (Get-Date).AddDays(-14))
         {
             ## print the file LMT
             # $file | Select @{ Name = "Uri"; Expression = { $_.CloudFile.SnapshotQualifiedUri} }, @{ Name = "LastModified"; Expression = { $_.CloudFile.Properties.LastModified } } 
    
             # remove file
             $file | Remove-AzStorageFile
         }
     }
     #Debug log
     # Write-Host  $DirIndex $dirsToList.Length  $dir.CloudFileDirectory.SnapshotQualifiedUri.ToString() 
 } 

Hope this helps! Let us know if you run into issues or have further questions.

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