Define the retention time for your incident projects
Incident projects often contain personal data. To always comply with GDPR or other applicable laws concerning personal data, define how long you want to keep your incident projects.
When the incident project expires, the project and all its information is automatically deleted. Sequences (recorded video and audio) have their own retention time.
To define or edit the retention time for incident projects:
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Select Tools > Options.
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On the Incidents tab, enter how many days you want to keep your incident projects. You can enter between 1 and 365,000 days. 7 days is the default value.
Even if the retention time for your incident projects created before the XProtect 2023 R1 release is expired, the XProtect VMS doesn't delete these pre-2023 R1 incident projects. You have to delete them manually.