This electronic trash can is a more attractive waste container than most. My previous container had an open top, so the contents were able to dry better. That is, autotrash is a utility that allows you to purge old files that have been deleted by you and that have remained inside the recycle bin for a specified number of days that you can specify. After the established period of time, the tool will start up and delete the contents of the directory from the trash.

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Script to automatically purge old trash

Project description

Autotrash is a small python script to automatically remove(permanently delete) trashed files. It relies on the FreeDesktop.orgTrash files for it's deletion information.

It scans the ~/.local/share/Trash/info directory and reads the .trashinfofiles to determine their deletion date. Files older then 30 days or filesmatching a particular regular expression are then purged, including theirtrash information file.

On Fedora consider using yum install autotrash

On Ubuntu and Debian try to install it using apt-get install autotrash.

ArchLinux has an AUR package available.

Last option is to install autotrash using pip, for example, using: pip install --user autotrash

Automatic Setup

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run autotrash --install to create a systemd service which runs daily with the provided arguments. For example

will run /usr/bin/autotrash -d 30 daily.

The service can be manually started with systemctl --user start autotrash.The timer can be enabled and disabled using systemctl --user enable autotrash.timer andsystemctl --user disable autotrash.timer respectively.

The service is installed to ~/.config/systemd/user so like the cron approach, root access is not required and multiple users have their own independent services.

Manual Cron Setup

To run autotrash daily using cron, add the following crontab entry:

You can also make autotrash process all user trash directories (not just in your home directory) by adding this crontab entry:

Or more frequently, but to keep disk IO down, only when there is less then 3GB of free space:

To configure this, run 'crontab -e' and add one of these lines in theeditor, then save and close the file.

System Startup Setup

If you do not know how to work with crontab, you could add it to the startupprograms in GNOME using the menu: System -> Preferences -> Sessions

Add the program with the '+ Add' button.

This will make sure that your trash is cleaned up every time you log in.

Autotrash

Homepage: https://github.com/bneijt/autotrash

Autotrash is now in the stable repo for Fedora 20 and is going to be synced out on the mirrors also for Fedora 21.Epel7 package is still in the testing repo but should go stable within few days.

You can install the package on Fedora right now with:

The autotrash command is created as a script, using poetry you can run the current implementation using:

Or by using the shell:

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