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Reza S
Reza S

Reputation: 9748

Mongo GridFS How to delete files older than a given date?

I came by this problem on how to delete files older than a certain date and couldn't find a quick answer on the web, so here I'm posting the question and answering it, hopefully it'll save someone 15 minutes at some point.

Essentially I wanted to have the behavior of the following command (delete files older than five days) kind thing

find /path/to/files* -mtime +5 -exec rm {} \;

but in mongo.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3898

Answers (2)

Chiranjib Datta
Chiranjib Datta

Reputation: 31

Removing data from fs.files is not a good solution. You should always retreive the file_id from the fs.files and use the grid fs object to remove the same

Upvotes: 2

Reza S
Reza S

Reputation: 9748

db.fs.files.remove({"uploadDate": {$lt : ISODate("2013-11-10T20:32:13.743Z")}});

Upvotes: -1

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