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Changing Rewind Settings for a Single Folder

Hey everyone. I searched for what I could think of with this, but couldn't find anything. So I guess I'll start a new thread.

Is anyone aware of any way to modify the rewind time window on a single folder and all child folders under it? If I create a .. 'scratch' folder for easy sharing and know it won't matter how long rewind is available, I'd rather have it stop keeping things after 1 or 2 days, not months.

Thanks in advance!

Ssurgul

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Rich

@Ssurgul wrote:
Is anyone aware of any way to modify the rewind time window on a single folder and all child folders under it? If I create a .. 'scratch' folder for easy sharing and know it won't matter how long rewind is available, I'd rather have it stop keeping things after 1 or 2 days, not months.

That's not possible. Your Rewind time window is based on the version history period for your account; either 30 or 180 days, depending on which plan you're on.

Ssurgul

I was afraid of that. Do we know if there's any plan to incorporate that feature eventually? Or was the 30/180 day back just 'decided' upon and that's that?

Rich

@Ssurgul wrote:
Do we know if there's any plan to incorporate that feature eventually? Or was the 30/180 day back just 'decided' upon and that's that?

Dropbox typically doesn't post roadmaps for things like that, though I would guess they have no plans for such a feature. It just doesn't seem like lowering the time frame to recover files is something that's needed. People typically want the limit extended, not reduced, and making it configurable on every folder makes a simple system more complex than it needs to be.

The 30/180 days is in line with the standard version history that was already in existence before Rewind was available.