How to remove 180+ days old files from Google Cloud Storage?

Question

I'm using Firebase for my Android app. Which has more than 600GB data stored by my users. Which is affecting my billing. That's why I want to remove old files from my cloud storage.

After doing some research, I added a life cycle rule in my Cloud Storage like below...

It shows rule will be active in 24 days. But my question is will it remove all the old files automatically. Or this rule is only applicable for files uploaded after I created this rule.

If the second option is true, then are there any ways delete them all ;_;

Ichthyosis

Answer 1

The documentation suggests that your lifecycle configuration should work for all files:

You can assign a lifecycle management configuration to a bucket. The configuration contains a set of rules which apply to current and future objects in the bucket. When an object meets the criteria of one of the rules, Cloud Storage automatically performs a specified action on the object.

The documentation also says it might take some time to activate:

Updates to your lifecycle configuration may take up to 24 hours to go into effect. This means that when you change your lifecycle configuration, Object Lifecycle Management may still perform actions based on the old configuration for up to 24 hours.

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