Trashbox wishlist

[gudjon]

   

[LS-Pro XHL 1TB, firmware 1.10-0.73]

 

The trashox is a great thing to keep old copies of inportant files.  But I wish I had more control over it and could manage it better.  I would like to request two features that would greatly enhance the trashbox's usefulness.

 

A. LIMITING DELETED COPIES

The trashbox eats up disk space although a assume (?) that when the disk is full the LinkStation will overwrite files in the trashbox based on some criteria(??).  It would therefore be very useful to able to limit the files kept in the trashbox.

   i) Limit the number of files kept e.g. last 10 copies

  ii) Limit the time files are kept e.g. 30 days

Option i) would keep up to 10 latest versions of a file wheather they span e.g. 3 hours or 3 years.  Option ii) on the other hand would keep all versions of a file for a periode of time wheather there are e.g. 3 or 300 different versions.

 

B. CHANGED NAMING CONVENTION

The naming convention used for deleted files is verbose ("Copy #n of ") and not suited for efficient management of files in the trashbox.  Look at this example, here sorted by name: 

  Copy #1 of Fgc.zip    07.07.2009  22:03
  Copy #1 of xxx.zip     19.07.2009  22:09

  Copy #2 of Fgc.zip    08.07.2009  21:15
  Copy #3 of Fgc.zip    09.07.2009  21:15
  Copy #4 of Fgc.zip    10.07.2009  21:14
  Copy #5 of Fgc.zip    11.07.2009  21:14

  Fgc.zip                    06.07.2009  22:13

  xxx.zip                     04.07.2009  22:12

 

It would be much better to insert the version number after the file name and before the file extension.  Then different versions of the same file would sort together and provide a better overview of a file's versions in the trashbox   

  Fgc.zip        06.07.2009  22:13
  Fgc(1).zip    07.07.2009  22:03
  Fgc(2).zip    08.07.2009  21:15
  Fgc(3).zip    09.07.2009  21:15
  Fgc(4).zip    10.07.2009  21:14
  Fgc(5).zip    11.07.2009  21:14

  xxx.zip         04.07.2009  22:12

  xxx(1).zip     19.07.2009  22:09 

 

Better still would be to "bump up" the version numbers on older files when a file is insert into the trashbox (deleted from the "Share" folder).  Then a file keeps the same name when moved to trashbox, the second latest version gets "(1)" appended etc.    

  Fgc.zip        11.07.2009  21:14
  Fgc(1).zip    10.07.2009  21:14
  Fgc(2).zip    09.07.2009  21:15
  Fgc(3).zip    08.07.2009  21:15
  Fgc(4).zip    07.07.2009  22:03
  Fgc(5).zip    06.07.2009  22:13
  xxx.zip         19.07.2009  22:09
  xxx(1).zip     04.07.2009  22:12 

[PCPiranha]

This is the thread for requests:

 

http://forums.buffalotech.com/buffalo/board/message?board.id=0101&thread.id=13463