Sorry I posted this in the wrong echo the first time.

With a message echo, you can set those as passthru and the message is not stored on your system.

With a file echo, doesn't the file have to be stored *somewhere* in order
for the subscribing nodes to pick it up and, once every node that is
subscribed has picked it up, doesn't it still just sit on your system?

A network I am in has added a file echo that could contain large files that
I don't want to keep beyond the point where any downlinks have picked the
file up, but I am not certain there is a way to automate such a process.

I know if the files exist in that nodes outbox, they get deleted, but I am pretty sure that is not how file echo attaches work (i.e. they are not
stored in the outboxes of individual nodes).

Thanks.


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Sorry I posted this in the wrong echo the first time.

With a message echo, you can set those as passthru and the message is not stored on your system.

With a file echo, doesn't the file have to be stored *somewhere* in order for the subscribing nodes to pick it up and, once every node that is subscribed has picked it up, doesn't it still just sit on your system?

A network I am in has added a file echo that could contain large files that I don't want to keep beyond the point where any downlinks have picked the file up, but I am not certain there is a way to automate such a process.

I know if the files exist in that nodes outbox, they get deleted, but I am pretty sure that is not how file echo attaches work (i.e. they are not stored in the outboxes of individual nodes).

This actually turned out to be pretty easy.

I did some poking around on the synchro.net wiki page. It had been a while since I had added a file area so I forgot that you can set retention periods. So, the solution for passthru file echoes in synchronet is to tell tickit that I
*do* want to save it to a file area, and then set that file area up with a retention of a month.

Then just add the delfiles utility to a nightly script.

Viola. :D

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Dumas Walker wrote to All <=-

This actually turned out to be pretty easy.

I did some poking around on the synchro.net wiki page. It had been a while since I had added a file area so I forgot that you can set
retention periods. So, the solution for passthru file echoes in
synchronet is to tell tickit that I
*do* want to save it to a file area, and then set that file area up
with a retention of a month.

Then just add the delfiles utility to a nightly script.

Sweet! I'm Fido RC10 and have a couple of big file areas I don't have an interest in keeping on my disk. I thought I'd have to wait for a tickit solution. This should work perfectly.



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