Remove documents not modified in x days - setting not working

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I have a database which has used the above setting for years, to strip out all but the most recent docs. About 10,000 docs get added daily, so this setting was really important. Around the time of upgrading my server to R6, this setting stopped working and no old docs got removed.

It works again one time if I manually go into File > Replication > Settings > Space Savers, manually change the x days setting to another number, then click OK. But I really need to automate this! I’ve tried deleting the database and re-creating it from a replica, but same problem on the new replica.

Anyone else got any ideas to try?

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Subject: RE: Remove documents not modified in x days - setting not working

I haven’t heard of anyone else having trouble with this… but I’m too lazy right now to go search for a problem report. You might try searching for technotes or calling support.

You could always write an agent to delete documents whose @Modified is a certain number of days in the past. This is not the same as removing them, since deleting leaves deletion stubs behind. Unless you set the database property to not keep deletion stubs, in which case the effect will be the same.