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Idea #1605: Trash Criteria/Timing

Written by PartisanEntity the 29 Feb 08 at 17:36. Category: Others. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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In an office environment, or even at home, many of us (I hope) send files to the trash bin but we do not empty the trash bin right away.

Instead we wait a couple days or weeks, just to make sure we really don't need the files any more.

It would be helpful to have the ability to assign trash criteria, for example: 'delete items old than 1 week (or 2 months etc..) from the trash'.
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Written by PartisanEntity the 29 Feb 08 at 17:36.
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logfish wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 22:15
I've got a small crontab line that might help some from [1]:

find ~/.local/share/Trash/files/ -type f -mtime 30 -printf '%P\000' |xargs -n1 -I -0 gvfs-rm trash:///_

Mind you, this is for the upcoming hardy.

[1] http://log.logfish.net/node/23

antistress wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 00:32
see also idea #63: better trash bin


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