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Does Plesk have a Recycle Bin in File Manager?

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Julian Bonpland Mignaquy
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Question

Does Plesk have a Recycle Bin in File Manager?

Answer

The Recycle Bin functionality in the File Manager is turned on by default for all Plesk installations starting Plesk 18.0.38.
The Recycle Bin has been implemented in Plesk 18.0.34 and is turned off by default on versions prior to 18.0.38. In order to turn it on follow these steps:

  1. Log into Plesk

  2. Install the Panel.ini Editor extension as described here: How to manage Plesk extensions (install, disable, remove, update)

  3. Go to Extensions > Panel.ini Editor > Editor tab and add the following lines:

    [fileManager]
    trash.enabled = true
    trash.folder = .trash ; the name of the the Recycle Bin folder

Note: The Recycle Bin appears after a user deletes a file.

Click Install

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    Holger Schramm

    Be careful, because the trashbin has no retention time for deleting the files automatically. you have to this by hand.

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    Michael Neubert

    The recycle bin seems to be turned on by default now:

    So in case you suddenly run out of disk space on your server, this could be one "new" reason.

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    Glenn

    This feature really needs a retention time feature otherwise the server will just fill up.

    If I disable the trashbin in Panel.ini, will the files within trash also be removed?

    Thx
    G

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    Holger Schramm (Edited )

    Glenn: No. You have to delete the files manually.

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    Glenn

    Any plans to add plesk admin capability to limit how long files are kept in trashbin?

     

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    Julian Bonpland Mignaquy (Edited )

    Hi Glenn, the feature you are requesting is already in progress with ID PPP-54200. It will be most likely implemented in version 18.0.39. You can monitor this website https://docs.plesk.com/release-notes/obsidian/change-log/.

    As a workaround, this could be resolved with a cron job.

    1. Log into Plesk

    2. Go to Tools & Settings > Scheduled Tasks > Add Task

    3. In the Command field, put the full path to the script to be executed.
      # find /var/www/vhosts/* -maxdepth 1 -type d -name ".trash" | xargs -i find {} -type f -mtime +1 | xargs -i rm {}
    4. In the Run field, set the the task execution time.
    5. In the System user field, leave user as root or choose another system user to run the task
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    Glenn

    Awesome. Thanks for the update Julian.

     

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