# How to clear anonymous contacts after 180 days instead of 365 days?
**URL:** https://forum.mautic.org/t/how-to-clear-anonymous-contacts-after-180-days-instead-of-365-days/28788
**Category:** Product Support
**Tags:** mautic-4
**Created:** [August 1, 2023, 10:54am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/how-to-clear-anonymous-contacts-after-180-days-instead-of-365-days/28788 "2023-08-01T10:54:00Z")
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### Author:  [@stgoos](https://forum.mautic.org/u/stgoos)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2023, 10:54am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/how-to-clear-anonymous-contacts-after-180-days-instead-of-365-days/28788/1 "2023-08-01T10:54:00Z")
**Your software**
My Mautic version is: 4.4.4
My PHP version is: 7.4.3
My Database type and version is: MySQL 8.0.33
**Your problem**
My problem is: I would like to reduce the number of records in the users database. To do this, I would like to reduce the period after which anonymous contacts are being removed from the database from 365 days to 180 days. How/where can I configure this?
If it needs to be done via a config file for which FTP access is required, can you then tell me the file name and location and the parameter that needs to be adjusted? That way I can instruct the folks hosting the Mautic installation on what to do.
These errors are showing in the log: n/a
Steps I have tried to fix the problem: searched the forum
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### Author:  [@mikew](https://forum.mautic.org/u/mikew)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2023, 12:14pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/how-to-clear-anonymous-contacts-after-180-days-instead-of-365-days/28788/2 "2023-08-01T12:14:45Z")
You could actually just do this via segments and campaigns.
1. Create a segment with the filters email is empty and Visited URL Date less than -180 days.
2. Create a campaign starting with this segment, then add an Action to delete these contacts.
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### Author:  [@stgoos](https://forum.mautic.org/u/stgoos)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2023, 3:16pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/how-to-clear-anonymous-contacts-after-180-days-instead-of-365-days/28788/3 "2023-08-01T15:16:58Z")
Briljant simple solution, thanks!
Does that “-180 days” work or does it need to be an actually set date?
It would be awesome if those 180 days limit could be dynamic.
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### Author:  [@mikew](https://forum.mautic.org/u/mikew)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2023, 5:29am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/how-to-clear-anonymous-contacts-after-180-days-instead-of-365-days/28788/4 "2023-08-02T05:29:46Z")
No it is a dynamic parameter. So you could set it to the folllowing dynamic parmaters:
is today
is yesterday
-1 day
+1 day
-7 weeks
or really whatever
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### Author:  [@stgoos](https://forum.mautic.org/u/stgoos)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2023, 7:39pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/how-to-clear-anonymous-contacts-after-180-days-instead-of-365-days/28788/5 "2023-08-02T19:39:32Z")
Great stuff, got it working 👍
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.mautic.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2023, 7:39am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/how-to-clear-anonymous-contacts-after-180-days-instead-of-365-days/28788/6 "2023-08-04T07:39:38Z")
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