CODEWITHSUNDEEP
google-apps-scriptgoogle-drive-api
user2029514
user2029514

Reputation: 81

Automatically delete files in google drive

Is there an app or script I can use that will automatically delete files (specifically .jpg) in my root google drive directory after 30 days or when my google drive is close to getting full.

I have .jpg attachments sent over from my email automatically to my google drive.It is just filling up my google drive space and I would like them to be automatically deleted.

Thanks.

Upvotes: 8

Views: 16952

Answers (1)

Serge insas
Serge insas

Reputation: 46794

based on another post by Tiziano Solignani and myself, here is a script that does the job... Please uncomment the setTrashed statement when you have it fully tested in the logger. Don't forget to change the email adress as well.

function DeleteMyJpegs() {
    var pageSize = 200;
    var files = null;
    var token = null;
    var i = null;
    var ThirtyDaysBeforeNow = new Date().getTime()-3600*1000*24*30 ;// 30 is the number of days 
//(3600 seconds = 1 hour, 1000 milliseconds = 1 second, 24 hours = 1 day and 30 days is the duration you wanted
    Logger.clear()

    do {
    var result = DocsList.getAllFilesForPaging(pageSize, token);
    var files = result.getFiles()
    var token = result.getToken();
        for(n=0;n<files.length;++n){
            if(files[n].getName().toLowerCase().match('.jpg')=='.jpg' && files[n].getDateCreated().getTime()<ThirtyDaysBeforeNow){
    //            files[n].setTrashed(true)
                Logger.log(files[n].getName()+' created on '+Utilities.formatDate(files[n].getDateCreated(), 'GMT','MMM-dd-yyyy'))
            }
          }    
     } while (files.length == pageSize);

      MailApp.sendEmail('[email protected]', 'Script AUTODELETE Jpegs report', Logger.getLog());

}

EDIT : If you prefer to look at the size of the files in your drive, you could modify this do do some math on the jpg's size and other filetypes that take space) quite easily... and delete some files accordingly. This is a example to show how to handle the situation.

Upvotes: 6

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