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Trashbin Cleanup
As the ownCloud server administrator, you have two occ commands for permanently deleting files from the Trashbin manually, without waiting for the normal aging-out process:
trashbin trashbin:cleanup Remove deleted files trashbin:expire Expires the users trashbin
The trashbin:cleanup command removes the deleted files of all users, or you may specify certain users in a space-delimited list. This example removes all the deleted files of all users:
sudo -u www-data php occ trashbin:cleanup Remove all deleted files Remove deleted files for users on backend Database user1 user2 user3 user4
This example removes the deleted files of user2 and user4:
sudo -u www-data php occ trashbin:cleanup user2 user4 Remove deleted files of user2 Remove deleted files of user4
trashbin:expire deletes only expired files according to the trashbin_retention_obligation setting in config.php. The default setting is auto, which keeps files in the Trashbin for 30 days, then deletes the oldest files as space is needed to keep users within their storage quotas. Files may not be deleted if the space is not needed.
The default is to delete expired files for all users, or you may list users in a space-delimited list:
sudo -u www-data php occ trashbin:cleanup user1 user2 Remove deleted files of user1 Remove deleted files of user2