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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'd imagine there would be a way to automatically delete the file if you've watched a certain percentage and it's been a certain amount of time.

IDK, I'm not a programmer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

It would be pretty trivial to write a 1 line ‘script’ that deletes everything in the directory older than X hours.