# Permanent bulk delete of old topics

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/permanent-bulk-delete-of-old-topics/24450>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [January 26, 2015, 4:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/permanent-bulk-delete-of-old-topics/24450 "2015-01-26T16:05:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![donsgood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/donsgood/32/38552_2.png) [@donsgood](https://meta.discourse.org/u/donsgood)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2016, 5:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/permanent-bulk-delete-of-old-topics/24450/3 "2016-07-06T05:24:24Z")

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Just to share my requirements, I’ll be setting up discourse from smf. We have 10 years worth of SMF data, so I’d like to purge all except for the last 5 years worth. In addition, I’d like to be able to automatically delete posts older then 5 users once Discourse is operational.

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