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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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7 years ago

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

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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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    Greg-DB
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    6 years ago

    TateFF No, unfortunately I don't have any news on this request.

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      mpk2
      New member | Level 2
      6 years ago

      Is there a reason this feature isn't being built?

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        Greg-DB
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        6 years ago

        mpk2 I can't speak to why Dropbox may have decided to work on any particular feature request or not. This feature request is still open and I'll follow up here with any updates if/when I have anything to share. I don't have any news on this right now though.

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