How to automatically delete rows that contain a date with more than 3 days offset to the past from now?

Question

I am trying to get a script going that will automatically delete rows with a date over 3 days old (4 days on)

I found this script that I was hoping to be able to adap

Answer 1

"date in column C, if that info is helpful"

It is indeed ! instead of trying to get a date in column A as it it done in this line :

var tempdate = sheet.getRange(i, 1).getValue();

you should look at the value in column C like this :

var tempdate = sheet.getRange(i, 3).getValue();

but to be more efficient you should do these comparisons at array level, try it like below and it will run much faster ...

var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var sheet = ss.getSheetByName("Foglio1");
var datarange = sheet.getDataRange();
var lastrow = datarange.getLastRow();
var values = datarange.getValues();// get all data in a 2D array

var currentDate = new Date();
var oneweekago = new Date();
oneweekago.setDate(currentDate.getDate() - 7);

for (i=lastrow;i>=2;i--) {
var tempdate = values[i-1][2];// arrays are 0 indexed so row1 = values[0] and col3 = [2]

if(tempdate < oneweekago)  
{
  sheet.deleteRow(i);
}
}
}