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The behavior of expired Archived directories when expiration operation occurs.

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Question

All of expired Archived directories are not removed when expiration operation occurs.

Answer

All of expired Archived files are removed when expiration operation is executed.

But the expiration behavior of expired Archived directories differs from it of expired Archived files when expiration operation is executed.


The only Archived directories which do not have any files or sub directories are removed when expiration operation is executed.

For example, if we have the following directories which are already expired,

only directory "directory3" is removed when expiration operation is executed.

/directory1/directory2/directory3

After removing directory3, if we also execute "expire inventory", only directory "directory2" is removed.

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Modified date:
17 June 2018

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