Expiring media
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Expiration
You can set an expiry date in INTERDUBS for files and logins / reels. Expired items are not visible on the client side any longer. They have a blue-gray background in their listings in the admin interface.
Files that will expire have an 
hourglass after their name.
remove expiration
An expired file or login will have a blue background in the admin interface. After the you you find the word [expired] and a link 
that lets you un-expire the file or login.
In order to 'unexpire' file(s) or set a new expiration date select it/them and then select the 
edit title. You will find the selection in the bottom.
In order to 'unexpire' a login / reel or set a new expiration date select the 
edit login.
remove expiration for multiple files
If you select files with the checkbox on the left side of the listing you can unexpire multiple files at once. You will need to enter none for the expiration in the text edit. Or simply use the from the top menu.
remove expiration for all files
Should you like to remove the expiration for all your files then please get in touch. It can be done very easily on a database level.
default Expiration
The default media expiry is been set with the config variable Expiry default, it starts out as 60 days.
The default of 60 days does not imply that Interdubs only can store files for that long. It just seems to be a reasonable default. Please do adopt this default to the needs of your production.
If you like files to never expire simply make the value empty.
Expiration Format
You can set the time and day of media in various formats:
counted items
days
XXX days
If you enter a number and the word days then interdubs will calulate the expirations in the future in XXX days.
weeks
XXX weeks
Similarly you can specify an expiration in XXX weeks
hours
XXX hours
even hours work.
months
And so do months (30 days)
years
.... and years (365 days).
date
MONTH/DAY
If you have a single slash in your expiration specification then Interdubs will use the first number as the month and the next one as they day of the expiration. Should the date have passed this year already then it will be the date in the next year. Please use numbers for the month like 1,2, ... 12.
MONTH/DAY/YEAR
If you like to specify a year then you can do so as well. With this format you can also specify an expiriation in that past. You can consider to hide media to get a similar effect though.
DAY.MONTH
Two numbers seperated with a dot will be seen as the day in the western European format.
DAY.MONTH.YEAR
European date that works similar to the American one.
Timezone
INTERDUBS might confuse the time zone you are on during input.