Move action to different location (instead of deleting)

[ctenuun]

Just being able to delete after set %time seems to be lacking in usage, Can you please add an option to change the behavior? For example, when %time is due, all matching files to be moved to external storage or trash bin or any path within the NC platform.

rule applied path - /path/to/files
selectors - year, month, day, hour
move to - /path (trash/deleted files) (attached external storage/path) (local /data/$user/../..)

Cheers,

Tenuun

[ctenuun]

Anyone?

This file retention app has already done 60% of the work, now please add a feature to move items on to external storage with original path and it can be backported as a core archiving feature. Just like Amazon S3 lifetime manager on NEXTCLOUD. Dirt cheap encrypted archiving solution.

[daspuppy]

I second that feature request. This is exactly what I need.

A folder I created named "Archive" and within it, all the files that are older than $time get moved into it.

example:
path/to/file/so-old.odt → Archive/path/to/file/so-old.odt
path/to/very/old/folder → Archive/path/to/very/old/folder/

path/to/file/just-created.odt stays in path/to/file/just-created.odt

Where I can see it getting troublesome might be having this as a per folder, or per group thing maybe?
I have different group folders for different parts of the company.

Section1/many/folders would then get a Section1/Archive/ to put everything into only from Section1
while
Section2/folders would get a Section2/Archive/ where nothing from Section1 gets into and vice versa.

[dvergeylen]

I would also love to have this.

Actually it's a trigger on a file based on a timeout. The action to do could be generalized (deleted, moved to other location, reset ownership, reset share status, ...)

[FALErwi]

I hope we have this soon ❤️

[elronzo]

This feature would be perfect. Rarely used data could be moved to a cheaper storage...

[smacz42]

I would also be interested if this could work with federated systems as well, to allow for a more flexible workflow. However, just having the basic functionality in place would be awesome too.

[ItsMeRitch]

Any updates on this functionality, would be amazing to have!

@nickvergessen

[nickvergessen]

Not planed at the moment from my side.
But if anyone wants to implement it, I'm happy to review and help getting the changes in.

[elronzo]

Not planed at the moment from my side. But if anyone wants to implement it, I'm happy to review and help getting the changes in.

I might have some time to look into it. Is there a way to find Nextcloud folders which haven't been touched for a while (atime of files within the folder) in order to autotag them in NC?