# Delete files setting with a modifiable date **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature Suggestions\ **Created:** [August 18, 2018, 11:22pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/delete-files-setting-with-a-modifiable-date/297875 "2018-08-18T23:22:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![savantali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/77aa72/32.png) [@savantali](https://forums.plex.tv/u/savantali)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2018, 11:22pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/delete-files-setting-with-a-modifiable-date/297875/1 "2018-08-18T23:22:24Z")
The current settings allows for a default day of 1 day or 7 days after viewing a TV Show. I would really appreciate it if it was possible to delete files after 14 days, 28, 31, etc. This date should be able to be custom. Alternatively, a system wide setting as well. ---
**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-files-setting-with-a-modifiable-date/297875/2 "2021-03-31T18:44:35Z")
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-files-setting-with-a-modifiable-date/297875/3 "2021-06-10T00:22:59Z")