watchDirectory Help > Plugins > Automatically Delete Files
Automatically Delete Files
Delete old files
Use the File Age monitoring method together with this plugin to automatically remove old files.Ideal to automatically remove old log files!
This plugin for watchDirectory automatically removes unwanted files from the monitored directory.
Settings for this plugin
This plugin has one setting: you can let it remove the directory if the last file in it is deleted by the plugin. You determine what files are removed on the next few screens.
You probably want to limit the files that are deleted to certain file types. For example
only files with a TMP extension. Use the Files that trigger events
tab to limit the types of files that will be automatically deleted.
When you configure a new task, the "files that trigger events" will automatically
be setup to only remove files with an "AUTODELETE" extension.
If you are using the Professional Edition of watchDirectory, you can use the Scheduler or the File Age monitoring method to delay deleting those files to some future moment.
