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It sounds like there’s no file retention policy specified for that Slack workspace. It’s possible to set a policy specifically for files.

https://slack.com/help/articles/203457187-Customize-message-...

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Right, the issue is that it's not possible to set file retention for individual channels/conversations, so if you want to have long-term file retention in some places and brief in others, it can't be done (additionally (in my experience, at least), people tend to believe that setting message retention will also apply to files -- it's not called out in the interface/etc).

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