Once the video is happily playing on Youtube, is there any reason to maintain the local, uncompressed video file? Those suckers take up a lot of space fast. Would it be possible for the module to automagically delete the local video once the video is up?

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caschbre commented

I would like to see as well. It would be a good alternative to use until the browser upload method can be added to drupal 6.

I'm curious if any either the following would work...
1) Create a rule / action that would be triggered when the video has been sent to youtube. The action would be to delete the local copy.

2) Create a cron job to automatically clean out the folder that holds the videos. Depending on the number of uploads, this could be set to run once a day at an off hour. The cron could also be setup to run once an hour and delete everything in the videos directory that is more than X hours old.

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bojanz commented
Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)

Patch in #757600: Removing files from files/ after upload to youtube?.