title: Why aren't my SQL Server 2005 backups being deleted?
body: <p>I've got a maintenance plan that executes weekly in the off hours. It's always reporting success, but the old backups don't get deleted. I don't want the drive filling up.</p>
  
  <p>DB Server info: SQL Server Standard Edition 9.00.3042.00 </p>
  
  <p>There is a "Maintenance Cleanup Task" set to </p>
  
  <p>"Search folder and delete files based on an extension" </p>
  
  <p>and "Delete files based on the age of the file at task run time" is checked and set to 4 weeks. </p>
  
  <p>The only thing I can see is that my backups are each given their own subfolder and that this is not recursive. Am I missing something?</p>
  
  <p>Also: I have seen the issues pre-SP2, but I am running service pack 2. </p>