win_find FAILED! => {"msg": "'dict object' has no attribute 'files'"} - ansible

Question

I am trying to run win_find with variables for "paths" to find temp files (e.g. c:\users\public\appdata\local\temp) but when I pass it to debug I get the error message
"FAILED! => {"msg": "'dict object' has no attribute 'files'"}"
I have tried swapping the "register" and "with_items" lines but that seems to make no difference at all.
- hosts: windows-02
vars:
dir: \AppData\Local\Temp\
tasks:
- name: find user directories
win_find:
paths: c:\users
recurce: yes
file_type: directory
get_checksum: no
register: user_dir
- name: debug 1
debug:
msg: "{{ item.path + dir }}"
loop: "{{ user_dir.files }}"
- name: find temp files
win_find:
paths: "{{ item.path + dir }}"
recurce: yes
hidden: yes
get_checksum: no
register: files_to_delete
with_items: "{{ user_dir.files }}"
- name: debug
debug:
msg: "{{ item }}"
loop: "{{ files_to_delete.files }}"
- name: remove
win_file:
path: "{{ item.path }}"
state: absent
with_items: "{{ files_to_delete.files }}"
I expect to get a list of files to be deleted which will be passed to the "win_files" module. Instead I'm getting the error message
"FAILED! => {"msg": "'dict object' has no attribute 'files'"}"

Answer 1

There is a typo in win_find module, it is recurse: yes
Please find the below code whcih worked for me
---
- name: Find files
win_find:
paths: "{{paths}}"
age: "{{duration}}"
register: log_files
- name: Delete the files
win_file:
path: "{{item.path}}"
state: absent
with_items: "{{log_files.files}}"
Also files_to_delete will not have files_to_delete.files as it is in loop. It will have files_to_delete.results

Answer 2

So, it appears that win_find, at least in my case, does not return files when using "when_items". I got around this by creating a list of paths and passing it into the "paths" parameter of the module.
Here is my code:
- hosts: "{{ host }}"
vars:
dir: \AppData\Local\Temp\
temp_paths: []
line_break: \n
tasks:
- name: find user directories
win_find:
paths: c:\users
recurse: no
file_type: directory
get_checksum: no
register: user_dir
- name: debug 1
debug:
msg: "{{ item.path + dir }}"
loop: "{{ user_dir.files }}"
- name: set temp path
set_fact: temp_paths="{{temp_paths + [ item.path + dir ] }}"
when: item.path != 'C:\\users\\Public'
with_items: "{{ user_dir.files }}"
- name: find temp files
win_find:
paths: "{{ temp_paths }}"
recurse: True
patterns: '*'
hidden: False
get_checksum: False
register: files_to_delete
# ignore_errors: yes
- name: debug
debug:
msg: "{{ item.path }}"
loop: "{{ files_to_delete.files }}"
- name: remove
win_file:
path: "{{ item.path }}"
state: absent
with_items: "{{ files_to_delete.files }}"