When archived cards disappears ?

[Emmanuel Guyot]

How long are archived cards available in trello search ? It doesn't seem to ever disappear...

[Iain Dooley · Accepted solution]

@Emmanuel Guyot they're always available

[Emmanuel Guyot]

Thank you for your answer.

No plan for deleting very old archived cards? It would be useful.

[Iain Dooley]

@Emmanuel Guyot well you could delete them yourself, or use the API maybe to clear out cards older than a certain date. Another option would be to put in place an automation that moves cards to an archive board when you archive them, and then delete the boards periodically which would be faster.

[Emmanuel Guyot]

Ok, we could add that to our power up.

Though, the created:nn criterea of the search API looks for cards that are younger than nn, not older than nn. So it isn't easy to search and delete old cards.

[Iain Dooley]

@Emmanuel Guyot if you use is:archived then you can loop through cards and determine the age based on the card ID:

https://help.trello.com/article/759-getting-the-time-a-card-or-board-was-created