[ZendTo] Re: Auto-deletion of files

[Ken Etter]

Greg,



I've been using it for four years.  It is a "set it up and forget about it" type of program.  Just works and requires no maintenance on your part.  Set the auto-deletion to a length of time that works for you and make sure you have sufficient disk space for the usage it will get and you are done.


Ken





Kenneth Etter, Systems Administrator

MSKTD & Associates, Inc.

http://www.msktd.com

260.432.9337




>>> Greg Mills <greg.mills at tangible.uk.com> 3/23/2015 10:35 AM >>>

 
Hi Grey and Jules,



Thanks for the feedback. It's always good to hear from people who have used the product for a while. I think the dropoff lifetime setting could work for us. As long as data is not left on the server for an unreasonable length of time, I'll be happy. Our current FTP server had data from 2010 just sitting there because no one has been managing it.




Thanks, I'll give it a try.




Do you find it stable and is help from the developer available at all if needed? I notice he's not offering commercial supp[ort contracts at this time.




Regards



On 23 March 2015 at 14:07, Gray McCord <gdm at sangabriel.com> wrote:





I believe there are two mechanisms that can be used by Zendto to delete uploaded files. The one I think you are referring to is where a user manually deletes a dropoff. In my experience, this is very rarely used by my users. The other mechanism is a system-wide auto delete, where the admin can set a lifetime for all dropoffs after which the system deletes them. I believe the default is 2 weeks, but you can set it to whatever you want in the config file. As far as I know, there is no mechanism built into Zendto to auto-delete right after a dropoff is downloaded, although a little php code could solve that if you need it.

I’ve been using Zendto for a couple of years now, and my users love it. No more asking IT to set up an ftp account for a one-off file transfer. 




Hope this helps,




Gray









Gray McCord


Adapt, Mutate, Migrate, or Die


 -C. Darwin




From:  Greg Mills
Reply-To:  ZendTo Users
Date:  Monday, March 23, 2015 at 7:57 AM
To:  <zendto at zend.to>
Subject:  [ZendTo] Auto-deletion of files







Hi all, I'm looking for a simple file transfer solution for our business. I would like something that allows staff to send files without my involvement, to anyone they have an email address for, and have the file auto-delete after the recipient has downloaded it.



Zendto looks as though it would do this, apart from the auto-delete. Is there a preference to remove the user's control over file deletion?




Thanks



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