Question

I am looking on ways that I can automatically clean up the Trash Web. What I would like to do is after a document has been in Trash for say a number of days it is automatically removed. Since we have implemented TWiki there are a number of stale documents taking up space that we would like to get rid of. Also we would like to have this process in place such that if a secure document is deleted we can remove it from Trash and not have it laying around. I know I could probably just go and delete the RCS files at the file system level but would that effect any META information in other documents?

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-- ToddBeauchemin - 13 Nov 2007

Answer

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You could set up a cron script to delete the whole Trash web periodically; see HowToEmptyTrash for more information. This approach of course lacks the sophistication to keep the content for a given number of days before deleting it.

-- MartinKaufmann - 14 Nov 2007

This is one area that can be improved. Feel free to file an enhancement request.

-- PeterThoeny - 01 Jan 2008