The idea is to have a time-bomb in-built in a document to save space on our local drives and networks.
Eg. When we create documents or share some documents we don't ever think they would be redundant after some time, and a clean up activity would need to be performed each year to clear up space on our systems and networks.
Working:
While creating files/folders one can specify the 'Delete-Date' of it. And it gets recorded as a scheduled process in the Operating system. A message would be displayed for the list of files that would be deleted by the EOD. The deleted files could be recovered from the recycler within a week.
We could extend the same to Email messages which could expire after a specified duration. So, some of the confidential email messages could be timed, they could expire after a specified duration.
Usage:
1. Shared folders.
2. Confidential Documents
3. Non-reusable documents
Similar to:
1. Auto clean-up of the 'junk-folder' in an email account.
2. Auto clean up of specified folders through a script.
