How do I empty the trash?

[Alexey]

@snorkel

if a client deleted something and wants to retrieve it, it has 7 days to do it

This is not for the client, it’s mostly for SNO to protect from disqualification in case if the satellite would send an incorrect bloom filter and it could remove data which should not be removed.
We will have 7 days to restore wrongly deleted data and fix an issue.
If you delete this data, your node could not recover it and will be DQ for losing it.

See also

Is there a plan to reduce Trash holding time?

@Toyoo is right. This isn’t for customers. There was already a bug in server side copy that caused a race condition, resulting in bloom filters being sent out that didn’t contain new pieces, making the nodes delete them incorrectly. In scenarios like that, Storj Labs has 7 days to become aware of the issue, identify the pieces that need to be restored and write the code to restore them. 7 days is not a lot of time to do that. I don’t see a way to lower that and not risk data loss in such scenari…

@Roberto please do not remove the trash folder unless you want to disqualify your node.
All files older than 7 days will be removed automatically.