I agree, this will surely help developers. In meantime, we can use CI/CD automation tools and use REST/SOAP to backup these to GIT repository.

This is required at multiple client location for us.

This is critical issue and causes lot of disruptions with our multiple clients. Do not use OOTB roles to manage folders. You will need to create your custom roles and use them for folder permission. These custom roles can be used for folder permissions to restrict users.

Swaroop, you can also use automated scripts to delete the files from UCM. This should be best practice instead of automated deletion, this way you know the file has been used already. you can use following to automate delete of file - Java scripts -…

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It is not possible to configure external storage other than Oracle as of now, we have got confirmation from Oracle on this.