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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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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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ABC15
New member | Level 2
5 years ago

This would be a very helpful feature for companies like mine as we are dealing with 1000s of clinet's files and we only need them for 3 months. After 3 months they can be deleted from Dropbox automaticly instead we go through all files. It would be nice to have an option for not deleted from local computer. 

 

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

    Thanks for the additional feedback!

  • qopera's avatar
    qopera
    New member | Level 2
    5 years ago

    I've been looking for a way to automate deleting files from Dropbox for my company usage, and I recall reading this post late last year. Interestingly, in Feb, I found a site that support auto-deletion for files on Dropbox - it's called Fileql. I set up my personal Dropbox just to test this out and I'm still in my free trial period, but so far it seems to work as expected. You'll create a rule and schedule how often it should run and define the terms for the rule. Hopefully, this works for someone else.

    Unfortunately, I'm not a developer so don't know how to hack these things so I'm sticking to these guys if all goes well.

  • Joachim_H's avatar
    Joachim_H
    Explorer | Level 4
    4 years ago

    Is there any chance that this feature will finally be introduced?
    Since 2018 this requirement exists in this thread
    My company is in dire need of this feature.
    We will have to look for another cloud provider otherwise

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

    Joachim_H While this isn't available/configurable via the Dropbox API as originally requested in this thread, the Dropbox product does offer a retention policy feature that may be helpful.

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