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File Management Improvements

I have made a small improvement to the File Management task that should be quite beneficial in a lot of cases, and that is file date checking.

What this means, is that you can decide if your file(s) should be copied/moved/deleted only if the file date is less than or greater than a specified number of units.

You can perform the check on the File Creation, File Last Accessed or File Last Modified dates, and the units you can select are Minutes, Days, Hours, Months (rounded off to 30 days in a month), Years (365 days). This should give all the flexibility that is needed to do most of the checking.

This is great for things like backups, where you might only want to copy backup files more than 3 days old.