Maintenance

Settings → Admin → Maintenance (Settings → Maintenance in the desktop app) shows whether the instance is healthy and runs its background cleanup.

System check

The system check tests the instance from both the server and your browser:

Check	What it confirms
Compute worker	The app can reach the worker.
Object storage	The storage bucket is reachable.
Playback secret	A playback signing secret is available.
Providers	At least one shared TTS provider is enabled.
Address you opened	The address in your browser matches BASE_URL.
Playback audio URL	Your browser can reach the worker's playback address, and it is not blocked as mixed content.

Each row reads OK, Check or Fix. Rows that are not OK say what is wrong and which setting fixes it. Choose Run again after changing configuration.

The desktop app adds Open logs folder here.

Scheduled tasks

Task	Default interval	What it does
Clean up unowned documents	6 hours	Removes document files and generated artifacts that no longer have an owner.
Clean up expired uploads	1 hour	Removes temporary uploads that were never finished.
Clean up expired exports	1 day	Removes account export ZIPs after seven days. Audiobooks are kept until their audio is cleared.
Clean up compute history	1 day	Releases expired compute leases and removes old limit counters and events.

You can turn each task on or off, change its interval, or run it now. Each task shows its last result, how long it took, and any error, which also goes to the server logs. A run that takes too long is stopped and recorded as failed.

Only one copy of a task runs at a time, even with several app instances.

How tasks are triggered

• Self-hosted and desktop: the app checks for due tasks every minute.
• Vercel: there is no long-running server, so Vercel Cron calls /api/admin/tasks/tick. Set CRON_SECRET; requests without it are rejected. The included schedule runs once a day (the most Vercel Hobby allows), so intervals shorter than a day are not offered there.