Does alfresco provide an option for soft delete.Currenty when i delete a content its deleting from alfresco repository(hard delete). Does any one dealed with this option can any one help me out .
We would like to see the same functionality, more on this in some older post at http://www.alfresco.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=719. Alfresco is planning a soft delete option that would allow a user to delete a file without removing the file on file system level.
I have installed the last version of Alfresco Enterprise Trial 1.2 on Mac OS X Tiger 10.4 with e PostgreSQL DB.
When I delete a content from Alfresco Web client I have seen that the content is deleted from DB but not from filesystem ( I found the {guid}.bin on the ald_data/contentstore/[year]/[month]/[day]/[hour]/ path ).
There is a bug on my installation or I can configure soft/hard delete ? In my solution that I'm still planning I prefer to delete content from DB & filesystem demanding to backup error and exceptiond
Soft Delete (V1.3): When nodes (files/folders/whatever) are first deleted they are moved or hidden and not removed from the metadata. These can be restored to their original or a new location. The ContentStore holds onto content as long as there is a URL pointing to it in the metadata. So soft delete has no affect on the lifespan of the .bin files.
Content Cleanup (V1.2): Once there are no URLs referring to content, it can be cleaned up. This is done by a background process that moves unreferenced content that is older than 14 days to a .deleted folder. This functionality is can be changed by overriding the relevant beans from alfresco/content-services-context.xml.
So, a .bin file may be referenced by several nodes. Once all these nodes have been hard deleted, the content will become eligible for removal.
