Delete a file forever in seafile

[renaud...@ofep.be]

Dear all,

I have found that when I delete a file from my "synced" seafile folder, the file is in fact not deleted from the hard disk.

I can always restore it later if I need.

Is there a way to delete the file forever ?

I think in the future, it could bring 2 potential problems:

1/ Hard disk issue, with the time, the repository will grow and grow with all the deleted files that are not needed anymore

2/ If I decide to delete confidential files, I don't want the files to be recover anymore. I want to delete the file forever

I'm thinking how is the database and the data mapping done today in seafile ?

Is there a way to delete the files forever ? Optionally or following a configuration file ?

Thank you very much,

Regards,

R. Dubois

[Lingtao Pan]

In a library's settings, you can choose the length of history to store. If you do not store history at all, when a file is deleted, you can revoke its space by running gc. See https://github.com/haiwen/seafile/wiki/Garbage-Collecting-Unused-Blocks-on-Seafile-Server for details. 

[Alex Domoradov]

But what I need to do, If I just want to delete one file and keep whole library history? Is it possible at all?

[Daniel Pan]

Not possible currently.

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the Google Groups "seafile" group.
To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/topic/seafile/LTfrCkA2UjM/unsubscribe.
To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to seafile+u...@googlegroups.com.
To post to this group, send email to sea...@googlegroups.com.
Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/seafile.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.