Delete Old News Automatically? Keep at Most x Copies?

spedinfargo · 02-20-2011, 04:24 PM

Might be a FAQ, but hard term to search for.

Is there a way to tell Calibre to keep "at most" a certain number of files from a particular recipe? I.e., if I run the USA Today recipe daily, delete anything that is more than two days old?

kovidgoyal · 02-20-2011, 04:25 PM

Look near the bottom of the fetch news dialog

spedinfargo · 02-20-2011, 04:41 PM

Too simple of course - staring me right in the face.

It looks like that's a global setting for all news sources - wishlist item to have it be per source?

Thanks for the quick answer...

mkgtu · 02-21-2011, 11:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by spedinfargo

Too simple of course - staring me right in the face.

It looks like that's a global setting for all news sources - wishlist item to have it be per source?

Thanks for the quick answer...

I second that wish list request - if it's possible.

I have set calibre globally to never delete any subscriptions just so I can keep "some" of them. In other words, I like to keep all the back issues of things like The New York Review of Books, London Review of Books, The Atlantic, etc. But I have little use for keeping a lot of back issues of most daily newspapers or other perishable goods. The only way I can accomplish that goal is to keep everything forever and then do a periodic run through the library and remove all the old issues of USA Today, BBC News, etc that I never really wanted to keep in the first place.

Not a big deal, but a "keep" or "delete" x issues per recipe would be nice.

spedinfargo · 02-25-2011, 05:24 PM

Mkgtu: Check out this thread in the development platform for a patch I just suggested: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=123166.

Hopefully it passes muster and will make the product!

mkgtu · 03-04-2011, 02:04 PM

Checked out the ticket and saw that the change will be in the next release.
All I can say is "a thousand thanks". All the tech stuff is a bit over my old head, but I'm glad [I]spedinfargo[I] was able to figure it out. And thanks to Kovid for the implementation.

julio:map · 10-08-2011, 07:10 AM

Has this feature been implemented? (old files purge on a per feed policy)

I can find the "Look near the bottom of the fetch news dialog " (thanks again kovidgoyal). But it applies to all recipes. (that is not exactly what I need as spedingfargo explains).

I can find the dialog where I am asked for each recipe the retention policy in days, but for me it doesn't seem to work. (I have "1 day" in most recipes, and I have to delete manually)

I find myself deleting manually each day the newspapers of the day before (and in the process I mistakenly delete weekly magazines ;-)

By the way. ¡ Calibre is wonderful !

02-20-2011, 04:24 PM	#1
spedinfargo Groupie Posts: 155 Karma: 106422 Join Date: Nov 2010 Device: none	Delete Old News Automatically? Keep at Most x Copies? Might be a FAQ, but hard term to search for. Is there a way to tell Calibre to keep "at most" a certain number of files from a particular recipe? I.e., if I run the USA Today recipe daily, delete anything that is more than two days old?

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02-20-2011, 04:25 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,858 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Look near the bottom of the fetch news dialog

02-20-2011, 04:41 PM	#3
spedinfargo Groupie Posts: 155 Karma: 106422 Join Date: Nov 2010 Device: none	Too simple of course - staring me right in the face. It looks like that's a global setting for all news sources - wishlist item to have it be per source? Thanks for the quick answer...

02-25-2011, 05:24 PM	#5
spedinfargo Groupie Posts: 155 Karma: 106422 Join Date: Nov 2010 Device: none	Mkgtu: Check out this thread in the development platform for a patch I just suggested: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=123166. Hopefully it passes muster and will make the product!

03-04-2011, 02:04 PM	#6
mkgtu Zealot Posts: 129 Karma: 33000 Join Date: Feb 2010 Device: Currently:Voyage, Oasis 3, Kindle mobile apps, andKindle Fire	Checked out the ticket and saw that the change will be in the next release. All I can say is "a thousand thanks". All the tech stuff is a bit over my old head, but I'm glad [I]spedinfargo[I] was able to figure it out. And thanks to Kovid for the implementation.

10-08-2011, 07:10 AM	#7
julio:map Member Posts: 23 Karma: 12 Join Date: Jul 2011 Device: Cool-er	Has this feature been implemented? (old files purge on a per feed policy) I can find the "Look near the bottom of the fetch news dialog " (thanks again kovidgoyal). But it applies to all recipes. (that is not exactly what I need as spedingfargo explains). I can find the dialog where I am asked for each recipe the retention policy in days, but for me it doesn't seem to work. (I have "1 day" in most recipes, and I have to delete manually) I find myself deleting manually each day the newspapers of the day before (and in the process I mistakenly delete weekly magazines ;-) By the way. ¡ Calibre is wonderful !

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