In your Media Library, you might notice that some PDF files have a small clock icon beside them, that gives the following message:
These are PDF files that have been used to process a Flipbook, and are automatically scheduled for deletion after 30 days.
💡 There is a notable difference between iPaper Flipbooks and the PDFs from which they are made. PDF deletion does NOT affect your existing Flipbooks.
Why your PDFs are being deleted
Once a PDF file has been processed into a Flipbook, it is no longer needed and is just taking up space in your Library. In order to avoid old PDF files collecting dust in your Media Library, the system will automatically remove PDF files (only those have been processed into Flipbooks) after 30 days.
By hovering over the clock icon beside your PDF file, you can see how many days are left before it is automatically deleted.
Your visitors will still be able to download the Flipbook
Even after the base PDF has been deleted from your Media Library, your visitors will still be able to download a PDF copy of it, if you have enabled this function.
Similarly, if you require the PDF file for anything such as re-processing, you can download it from the Flipbook.
Doing so is easy:
Click on the Flipbook for which you want to download a PDF version. This will open the Flipbooks settings.
In the top right corner, click on the '…' icon, to the left of Edit Enrichments.
From the drop-down menu, select Download PDF. This will download a copy of the PDF to your default downloads directory.