This add-on provide a job to remove abandoned files in Deleted Content Store.
From Alfresco 5.2 (201707 GA) a Trashcan Cleaner job is provided out of the box, although is disabled by default. This job removes documents from trash can periodically.
Once a content has been deleted from trashcan, ContentStoreCleaner job moves it to Deleted Content Store and change node state to deleted in database 14 days after. NodeServiceCleanup job remove the node from database 30 days after, but in the end the file is still living in Deleted Content Store. This addon will purge from Deleted Content Store (usually at ${alfresco}/alf_data/contentstore.deleted) these abandoned files.
Configuring both Trashcan Cleaner and Deleted Content Store Cleaner addons, contents will be removed phisically from content stores without user or admin operation.
License The plugin is licensed under the LGPL v3.0.
State Current addon release is 1.1.0
Compatibility The current version has been developed using Alfresco 201707 and Alfresco SDK 3.0.1
- Use 1.0.0 for Alfresco 201707 (aka Alfresco 5.2)
- Use 1.1.0+ for Alfresco 201806 (aka Alfresco 6.0)
No original Alfresco resources have been overwritten
The binary distribution is made of one JAR file to be deployed in Alfresco as a repo module:
You can install it by copying JAR file to $ALFRESCO_HOME/modules/platform and re-starting Alfresco.
You can build the artifacts from source code using maven
$ mvn clean package
Job can be planified by including following property in alfresco-global.properties
system.content.deleted.cronExpression=0 0 1 * * ?
By default, it will run every night at 1 AM.
Eventually you can configure Alfresco not to use Deleted Content Store at all by including following line at alfresco-global.properties
system.content.eagerOrphanCleanup=true
Details available at Tony de la Fuente blog post.