
However, sometimes, you failed to perform File History cleanup with error code, such as, 8004050e, 800405ff, or directly throwing an error message like "could not clean up file history data element not found", you will use the seond one, it's FhManagew.exe command. You can delete older versions of files and folders from older than 1 moth to older than 2 years, also there is an option called all but the lastest one. To delete file history folder, the first way is using File History Cleanup feature in this software. How do I clean up my Windows backup files? Any kindly advice will be appreciated. “I’ve set up File History in Windows 10 to delete backups older than one month, but the automatic cleanup is not working: the backup drive contain files a few months ago. Then, you may want to delete file history folder so as to free up disk space, below is an example.

File history was first introduced in Windows 8 and later inherited in Windows 8.1/10/11, and designed to keep multiple versions of your files on a location you specify, it can be internal or external hard drive, network location.īut if just turn it on without configure it correctly, you will find your Windows 10/11 file history taking up too much space, in a very short time or later.
