diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 88cf52c..e9ad335 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -343,13 +343,13 @@ D3filesModel::createCopy($fileModelId, Users::class, $model->id);
 
 ### Maintenance commands
 
-Soft delete
+Soft deletes files (sets deleted=0)
 
 ```bash
-d3files/remove-older-than full/model/name yyyy-mm-dd
+d3files/remove-older-than full/model/name months
 ```
 
-Deletes files and corresponding records in database
+Deletes files and corresponding records in database which have deleted=0
 
 ```bash
 d3files/remove-files full/model/name
diff --git a/commands/CleanFilesController.php b/controllers/CleanFilesController.php
similarity index 76%
rename from commands/CleanFilesController.php
rename to controllers/CleanFilesController.php
index 5f62f2b..b1298b1 100644
--- a/commands/CleanFilesController.php
+++ b/controllers/CleanFilesController.php
@@ -1,32 +1,31 @@
 <?php
 
 
-namespace d3yii2\d3files\commands;
+namespace d3yii2\d3files\controllers;
 
 use yii\console\Controller;
 use d3yii2\d3files\models\D3filesModel;
 use d3yii2\d3files\components\FileHandler;
+use d3system\commands\D3CommandController;
 
-class CleanFilesController extends Controller
+class CleanFilesController extends D3CommandController
 {
 
     /**
      * soft deletes all the file models older than date provided
-     *
-     * date must be in format yyyy-mm-dd
-     * example:
-     * date -d '-3 year' '+%Y-%d-%m'
+     * older than number of months
      *
      * @param $modelName
-     * @param $date
+     * @param $months
      * @throws \ReflectionException
      * @throws \Throwable
      * @throws \yii\db\StaleObjectException
      *
      * @return int
      */
-    public function actionRemoveOlderThan($modelName, $date)
+    public function actionRemoveOlderThan($modelName, $months)
     {
+        $date = date('Y-m-d', strtotime('-'.$months.' month'));
 
         $oldFiles = D3filesModel::find()
             ->innerJoin('d3files', '`d3files`.`id` = `d3files_model`.`d3files_id`')
@@ -63,6 +62,8 @@ public function actionRemoveFiles($modelName)
             ->where(['deleted' => 1])
             ->all();
 
+        $this->stdout('Deleting ' . count($deletedFiles) . ' file models.');
+
         foreach ($deletedFiles as $fileModel) {
 
             $file = $fileModel->getD3files()->one();
@@ -78,14 +79,17 @@ public function actionRemoveFiles($modelName)
             $filePath = $fileHandler->getFilePath();
             $fileModel->delete();
 
-            if (!D3filesModel::findOne(['d3files_id' => $file->id])) {
+            if (!$usedModel = D3filesModel::findOne(['d3files_id' => $file->id])) {
 
                 $file->delete();
 
                 if (file_exists($filePath)) {
                     unlink($filePath);
                 }
+            } else {
+                $this->stdout('Can\'t delete file ' . $file->file_name . ', in use with model: '. $usedModel->id);
             }
+
         }
 
         return 0;