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outsidecoder
Helpful | Level 5
7 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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tuancrab
New member | Level 2
1 year ago

It is super easy to have a Google script code with Chatgpt to delete specific filetypes, after x days ... and other filtering conditions as you like: notification to email after completion, trigger runs everyday, week or more when you use Google Drive. I'm still not sure how to do that with Dropbox.

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Greg-DB
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1 year ago

tuancrab Thanks for the feedback. Dropbox doesn't offer a feature exactly like this, but I've sent this along as a feature request.

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