# Delete Episodes "After a month" option **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature Suggestions\ **Created:** [May 10, 2019, 7:24am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/delete-episodes-after-a-month-option/410066 "2019-05-10T07:24:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ebby](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/ebby/32/14102_2.png) [@ebby](https://forums.plex.tv/u/ebby)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2019, 7:24am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/delete-episodes-after-a-month-option/410066/1 "2019-05-10T07:24:34Z")
I would find it useful to have an “After a Month” option in the autodelete feature along with daily and weekly. Not all family members are up to date within a week of the admin and could use a little more time. ![34%20AM](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/a/9/a9d48e9456d39ec43c525634bd0f2781e07114ab.png) ---
**Author:** ![NewPlaza](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/newplaza/32/128634_2.png) [@NewPlaza](https://forums.plex.tv/u/NewPlaza)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2019, 7:31am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/delete-episodes-after-a-month-option/410066/2 "2019-05-11T07:31:49Z")
I find your screenshot amusing. Based on the setting shown, you and all that you share with only have one month until they get deleted(watched or not). So, you could just set _delete played episodes_ to **never** because the option above, will only keep episodes for a month. ---
**Author:** ![ebby](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/ebby/32/14102_2.png) [@ebby](https://forums.plex.tv/u/ebby)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2019, 8:14am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/delete-episodes-after-a-month-option/410066/3 "2019-05-11T08:14:25Z")
That’s how I read that option too, but older episodes were never removed. Only the “delete episodes after playing” actually removed files from my library. ---
**Author:** ![NewPlaza](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/newplaza/32/128634_2.png) [@NewPlaza](https://forums.plex.tv/u/NewPlaza)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2019, 8:28am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/delete-episodes-after-a-month-option/410066/4 "2019-05-11T08:28:23Z")
Funny, now that I look at again. The option makes a little less sense(for multi-users) KEEP is for unplayed only. This won’t interfere with played. Delete episodes after x day/week won’t interfere with unplayed. To effectively compensate for all family both must be set to never, or at least for your liking one month but still, not ideal. Clearly these setting are for one user(you, the admin). These setting won’t even help managed user accounts. Just you. It be real nice if we could tie users to the series so the settings would apply to them aswell… ---
**Author:** ![ebby](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/ebby/32/14102_2.png) [@ebby](https://forums.plex.tv/u/ebby)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2019, 9:53pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/delete-episodes-after-a-month-option/410066/5 "2019-05-14T21:53:16Z")
There are a couple shows with lots of episodes and tend to fill up storage space pretty quick. I figure if they haven’t watched a news-related show in a month, they won’t. It’s an easy way to save some space automatically. ---
**Author:** ![sensei321](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ea924/32.png) [@sensei321](https://forums.plex.tv/u/sensei321)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2019, 8:19am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/delete-episodes-after-a-month-option/410066/6 "2019-11-21T08:19:12Z")
I too would really like to have to option to delete _watched_ episodes after 30 days. ---
**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2021, 6:44pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/delete-episodes-after-a-month-option/410066/7 "2021-03-31T18:44:15Z")
Early 2021 clean-up: duplicate > [@Feature Request: Improve configuration of "Maximum unwatched" and "Delete watched" // mod: keep](https://forums.plex.tv/t/feature-request-improve-configuration-of-maximum-unwatched-and-delete-watched/309155): > > Hello, I have shows in my Plex library that I don’t want to keep forever, but I would like them to hang around for a month or two in case I get the chance to watch them, and after I do watch them, I’d like to give my other users more than 7 days to watch them too. Please provide more granular options for these two settings: [image] Make these completely user configurable. Let us specify episode count or age in days from a dropdown, and then provide an input field of a number for “Keep unwatc… ---
**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2021, 12:22am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/delete-episodes-after-a-month-option/410066/8 "2021-06-10T00:22:17Z")