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what is the recycle bin maximum retention time for cloud? Can automatic purges be disabled?

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Updated October 31, 2023

asked on October 31, 2023

Hello all,

I am looking for an answer to the questions in the title. What is the maximum value for retention in the recycle bin in cloud? Can it be set to manual/indefinite retention?

I have a customer that wishes to entirely disable the automatic recycle bin purges, and to require manual review for any purge. As there does not seem to be a way to disable automatic purges, I've set their bin retention to 365 days for the time being. I can certainly enter a higher value, but I'd like to know what the maximum is, with the thought being to set a very high value to effectively make the purge process manual. If there is a way to set it in manual/permanent mode that would be preferable.

Any answers appreciated.

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replied on October 31, 2023

It's not clear from the documentation, but if you have selected "Enable recycle bin" and unselected "Age limit (days) on recycled items", it means that there won't be any automatic purging of the recycle bin.

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replied on October 31, 2023

Thanks for the clarification Brian. I'll deselect this and carry on.

By way of feedback, when deselecting the age limit, the UI disables the text input, but populates it with a 7, which the documentation also lists as the default for retention. Absent your clarification, it left me thinking the recycle bin was going to fall back to 7 days retention. I think the the documentation could use another pass/increased detail and here. Perhaps the UI could use a tweak here as well - hide the input entirely when deselected, or replace the "7" with "n/a" or "-" or anything to that clearly indicates that the retention period is not in effect.

I attached a picture of the UI for clarity. Thanks again for the rapid response to my question.

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