Routy

Automatic cleanup

Settings & security 1:37 7 chapters

How to have Routy archive stale traffic sources and links once a day, and how to run a one-time cleanup with a preview first.

Transcript

Automatic cleanup archives traffic sources and links that nobody uses any more. Archiving only hides an item from your list. It keeps serving traffic, and nothing is deleted. It isn't tied to a plan, and anyone on your account can change these settings. Traffic sources and links each have their own card, and you switch each one on separately. Let's start with traffic sources. Switch on Enable automatic archiving. Two thresholds decide what counts as stale. The no-activity window: no clicks, conversions or revenue for this many days. And the minimum age, so new items are never touched. An item is archived only when both are true. Click Save changes. From now on, cleanup runs once a day.

To clean up straight away, without waiting for tomorrow's run, click Clean up now.

You see everything that would be archived, before anything changes. Each item shows when it was created, and when it last had activity. Everything starts ticked. Untick anything you want to keep. Then archive the rest. Each day the cleanup archives something, you get a notice in Issues saying how many. To bring an item back, open its list, set the Archive filter to Archived, and click Restore. Switching cleanup off stops future runs. It doesn't restore anything by itself.