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outsidecoder
Helpful | Level 5
8 years ago

Automatically Deleting Files After X Days - General Data Protection Regulation May 2018

Hi there, I'm using the Java SDK 3x (API v2) and I'm looking for pointers/code to automatically delete files that are X number of days old.  There is post on this forum which is doing this in python...
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Greg-DB
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8 years ago

Thanks for the post! Dropbox doesn't offer a way to do this automatically via the API. I'm sending this along as feature requests for created and modified times for folders, as well as a native way to have Dropbox automatically delete files after a certain amount of time. I can't promise if/when these would be implemented though.

  • LukFromTheSky's avatar
    LukFromTheSky
    New member | Level 2
    7 years ago

    Hello Greg,

     

    Was there any progress on that?

     

    Thanks,

    Luk

    • Greg-DB's avatar
      Greg-DB
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      7 years ago

      LukFromTheSky No, unfortunately I don't have an update on either of these feature requests.

      • TateFF's avatar
        TateFF
        Explorer | Level 4
        6 years ago

        I'm a little shocked there isn't a way to do this.  Has there been any progress on implementing this functionality?

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