I like that in FME Flow it's possible to configure cleanup tasks.
However, to me it wasn't so intuitive how the cleanup frequency actually works.
For example, if I configure a cleanup task to cleanup files that are older than 1 hour, I was tempted to think that files that would be in the folder would be cleaned up after 1 hour (and surely after multiple hours).
However, I learned that that isn't actually the case. I learned that there is actually a relation/dependency between;
a) The 'Remove Files Older Than' parameter (at tab 'Tasks' of 'System Cleanup'), and
b) The 'Task Interval' parameter for 'Normal Conditions' (that can be configured at the 'Configuration' tab of 'System Cleanup')
Specifically, how often the cleanup tasks take place, are configured by the 'Task Interval’ parameter, which I think by default is 1 day.
So, for my newly configured cleanup task, I would need to wait at least a day for files to be removed, and not 1 hour.
I think it may avoid some confusion, when a warning would show up, in case a user would configure a cleanup task to be scheduled more frequent than the general 'task interval’ in which the cleanup tasks are performed.
Ps. This is an idea following ‘item 2’ of my question on the FME Community: How to periodically Cleanup the FME Flow Temp Resource (i.e. '$(FME_SHAREDRESOURCE_TEMP)') | Community (safe.com)
