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#30966 Subdirectories

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Latest post by on Friday, 22 March 2019 18:17 CDT

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Description of my issue:

I have set up my back ups to run and upload to Google Drive. I use subdirectories. So I have the following:

/Root Folder/Company Folder

I have set up the following in the Post-processing engine:

/Root Folder/Company Folder/[DATE], [TIME], [HOST], [RANDOM]

I have set the Count quota to 3 and the box for Enable remote file quotas is checked. After the third back up the files inside the oldest folder [DATE], [TIME], [HOST], [RANDOM] are removed, but not the folder. Where do I set this to remove the folder [DATE], [TIME], [HOST], [RANDOM]?

Thanks in advance!

tampe125
Akeeba Staff
Hello,

Google Drive APIs are poor documented and the whole logic behind is very convoluted (case in point: in order to fix an upload issue, we had to do the exact opposite they were saying in their docs).
While uploading files to your Google Drive account, we only get a reference to the backup archive we uploaded, not the whole folder path.
This means that when backup quotas are applied, we delete everything we know of, ie all the backup archives since we have their file id.
Sadly we do not have any point to the full path inside Google Drive, so after deleting the old backups, empty folders are left behind.

Davide Tampellini

Developer and Support Staff

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Thanks for the reply. I testing this script for deleting empty folders in Google Drive, and it works. Just go to https://script.google.com. Create a new project, a file, and paste the info below. The script runs for 6 minutes before it times out. I am planning to run it automatically on the first of each month. Hope others find this useful.

Thanks,
Rosendo
www.discoverwebsolutions.com



function delEmptyFolders() {
var folders = DriveApp.getFolders();
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.create("folderslist");
while (folders.hasNext()) {
var folder = folders.next();
var files = folder.getFiles();
var childfolders = folder.getFolders();
var filecount = 0;
var foldercount = 0;
while (childfolders.hasNext()){
var childfolder = childfolders.next();
foldercount ++;
}
while (files.hasNext()){
var file = files.next();
filecount ++;
}
ss.appendRow([folder.getId(),folder.getName(),filecount, foldercount]);
if (filecount == 0 && foldercount == 0){
folder.setTrashed(true);
}
}
}

tampe125
Akeeba Staff
Thank you very much for the suggestion!
We will take a look at it and see if it's possible to implement.

Davide Tampellini

Developer and Support Staff

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Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

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