Your storage media now have an age, and a deadline

Added

• Declare your storage media and the app announces their replacement. Integrity checks tell you a file is intact; they say nothing about the age of the disk holding it. A collection whose every check is green, on three disks bought the same day six years ago, is at risk — and nothing said so.

  A medium is declared in the settings, beside the offsite destination: a name, a tier (N1 working storage, N2 local archive, N3 offsite copy), a kind, a commissioning date, a location. The deadline follows — five years for a disk, ten for an LTO tape, twenty-five for an optical disc — and stays editable, because you know your hardware better than that default. A medium nearing the end of its service life rises into the Health screen’s “to handle” list: a warning three months ahead, an alert after.

  Three deliberate choices. No deadline is invented: with no commissioning date the state stays undetermined and the medium is never flagged — an alert you cannot dismiss is an alert you learn to ignore. Cloud storage has no deadline, durability there being the provider’s responsibility. And tiers with no declared medium are named, not merely counted: three brand-new media all at the same tier is one copy.

Fixed

• The reason a licence is refused now appears in your language. The screen explained the refusal in French, then gave its reason in English.