# Attachment compression

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/attachment-compression/229862>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [June 13, 2022, 9:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/attachment-compression/229862 "2022-06-13T21:40:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![RBoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@RBoy](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RBoy)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2022, 1:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/attachment-compression/229862/5 "2022-06-14T01:11:14Z")

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On the forum I’m managing yes, the text files are a few GB in size because it’s a support forum, so community members upload log files and each one is 10’s of MB. They add up quickly.

Wondering if there’s an option to automatically drop attachments ie an expiration date. So if the text attachments can’t be compressed maybe they can be automatically dropped after X days?

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