What type of hardware are you using: Old laptop or computer
What YunoHost version are you running: 12.0.10
What app is this about: OwnTracks
Hello all 
My question is rather simple : is there a way to either delete or set a maximum time span for OwnTracks to keep my data?
No logs needed yet
Hi srohde,
It seems that (as of October 2024) such a function is not available, see How to delete old location data ? · Issue #501 · owntracks/recorder · GitHub :
There is rudimentary and possibly dangerous support for removing data via the API, but beware this has probably had very little testing.
Other than that, you can safely at any time remove the
*.recfiles under<STORAGE>/rec/<user>/<device>/. These are namedYYYYMM.recand can easily be identified.
Hello wbk
Many thanks for the reply!
I started looking for the storage path, and from what I found, I believe it to be /var/spool/owntracks/recorder/store. So I cd to this path, but couldn’t find any rec folder unfortunately. I started looking around at the documentation on their github repo and bumped into the bit about the ocat cmd line tool. So I played a bit with it and saw it does not find any info on any of the users/devices I have. Moreover, ocat --list returned the following:
{“error”:“Cannot open requested directory”}
Any ideas what am I doing wrong? Or where should I look? 
And again, thanks for the help!!
I think you may have to re-read that section. The intry that mentions /var/spool/.... is meant as an example of how to write entries in the configuration file.
The configuration file itself is mentioned as being placed in /etc by default.
A blunt force approach to finding something, would be the command locate. It is not installed by default;
$ sudo apt install locate
$ sudo updatedb
$ locate owntrack
In spirit of Yunohost, I expect the tracks to be saved either in a subdirectory under the users own directory at /home/srohde/ or in an owntrack subdirectory under /home/yunohost.app.
In what context did you run that command? Which user? sudo ocat --list may return better results.
Good luck. Keep us posted on progress!
Great stuff!!
Thanks a lot for your help- highly appreciated 
After following your instructions to install locate I ran
locate owntrack | grep -E '\.rec |\.rec$' and that gave me directly the location of my rec files and fro there deleting them was easy 
Super! Nice that you got it sorted, and thanks for the update!
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