How to delete uploaded image automatically after certain time

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I'm making a project on social networking site in asp.net and I want to ask a question regarding this . I want to make a story update feature like Whatsapp and for that the image uploaded should gets deleted automatically after a day . I want to ask how to do that . Means how to make a picture uploaded at once and gets deleted after exactly a day in asp.net ?

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I've tried to delete it manually and it works well , but i want to delete it automatically after certain time like may be after a day .

Posted 16-Jun-19 9:02am

nitin30kumar

Updated 16-Jun-19 10:30am

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F-ES Sitecore 17-Jun-19 3:47am

In addition to what OriginalGriff said, you can use a library like quartz.net to schedule your asp.net code to run so you can do an hourly task to delete old images. It's not as reliable as a scheduled task or a service but if you're not able to use those then it's a decent alternative.

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OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2019-06-16T10:30:00

There is no way to automatically expire and delete images or any other files, you will have to do something yourself to remove them.
The way I would do it is to add a scheduled task to remove them (Windows and most hosting services provide some mechanism for this) and have run every hour or so.
Then I'd add an expiry date and time to each image as part of a database (file location, name, expiry, any other info you wanted) and write a quick app which pulled the expired rows from the DB and removed the file, and then the row.
Run that every hour, and the files disappear as if by magic.