---
id: settings.what-are-the-archive-and-delete-floors
url: https://storagestudio.us/faq/settings/what-are-the-archive-and-delete-floors
category: "Settings & keep-time"
subcategory: "Rules and safety floors"
question: "What do the archive and delete floor settings do?"
alt_questions:
  - "Floor raise all archive ages"
  - "Floor raise all delete ages"
  - "storage studio global age floor"
  - "0 = use per-rule values meaning"
  - "Make all rules wait longer"
short_answer: "They raise the minimum age for all move rules or all delete rules at once. A floor can only make rules more cautious, never less; set it to 0 to use each rule's own age."
tags: ["rules", "age floor", "safety"]
related: ["https://storagestudio.us/faq/settings/what-is-the-hard-floor-setting"]
applies_to: "all"
last_reviewed: 2026-10-01
---

# What do the archive and delete floor settings do?

They let you raise the minimum age for a whole group of rules at once, without editing each one. **Floor — raise all archive ages to at least** applies to move rules; **Floor — raise all delete ages to at least** applies to delete rules. Both are under **Global overrides** in **Settings → Rules**.

A floor can only make rules *more* cautious: each rule uses whichever is older, its own age or the floor. Set a floor to **0** to turn it off and let each rule's own age stand.