I'm wondering if anyone can guide me in the right direction, or show me an example of how I would go about setting up alfresco to delete all of the content that has existed for more than x years. I'm looking to automatically delete documents after they have existed in the system for a given number of years/ days. Thanks for any help you can provide!
Take a look at this Forge project: http://forge.alfresco.com/projects/trashcancleaner/. It purges deleted content from the repository. You can just adapt it to remove all content more than X days from the date they were created.