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Handling of deleting past events
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Feature description
As suggested here, I'd like to propose an option/way to make deleting of past events more straightforward. That's currently possible already of course but is a rather manual process (check which events/tasks are past/done), select them, delete.
I think it would be nice either having an option/action 'delete all past events and completed tasks' the user can run from time to time or an auto-delete mechanism, though in this case concerns like mentioned from@Aokromes below should be taken into account.
Why do you want this feature?
When events are past/tasks are completed, personally I have no need to store/see them anymore, so (semi-)auto-deleting in this case would be convenient. In fact I assumed this would be the case by default and was surprised when I recently by chance saw the long list of past events in the 'Simple event list' view. Not a big thing, but they accumulate over time when not deleting manually occassionaly.
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imho such thing must wait few hours? day? before delete in case you forget it and you may reach event / taks even if late.
imho such thing must wait few hours? day? before delete in case you forget it and you may reach event / taks even if late.
Yes, meanwhile I think delete on demand (an option/action which one can run from time to time) may be better than auto-delete. With auto-delete it can easily be forgotten that it's enabled and then when wanting to keep a past event for whatever reason and it's gone that's no good.
@nofishonfriday Please adjust your original request to what exactly you'd like to have.
@Aga-C Thanks for the heads up, request updated.
(open to discuss implementation details with whomever wants to work on this of course. :))
I think it would be nice either having an option/action 'delete all past events and completed tasks' the user can run from time to time or an auto-delete mechanism, though in this case concerns like mentioned from@Aokromes below should be taken into account.
maybe this can be a setting, from idk, 1h, 3h, 6h, 12h, 1d, 2d expired tasks?
I would like this function too. BB calendar had this option for deleting calendar events older than 30 days.
Here it could be adjustable for whatever period from 1 day to 1 year (?).
