What I do is to sort by finished publishing

That's an option but I still would have to manually select them to batch file anything. Thanks for you input though.

Hello,

Same problem.

Sort by "finish publisihing descending" makes:

1. • First it shows all articles with end of publication date after today.
2. • Then all expired articles (the ones we want to filter).
3. • And then all articles with no end date.

So, you do not know where beging and where end the expired articles in the list.

PS: with more than 5000 articles to manage, this is not the most comfortable
PPD: Just a comment. Editors often ask me confused: why in Joomla when the "end of publication date" is reached, the article does not become "unpublished"? I tell them that they become "expired", but they insist that "expired" is the reason why it is not published, but not the status.

It seems clear that a published article that has passed its publish_down date is treated by the article manager as "published" article, although the icon to indicate that the article has passed its "expiration" date is displayed. I seem to recall that way back in Joomla 1 or 1.5, there was an option either via some long gone extension or in the core that would change an article's state to "archived" under these conditions. "archived" a state indicated by the value of the article's "access" field - along with "published", "unpublished", and "trashed". It seems long past time for "expired" to be treated as an additional state by the article manager. Many site content managers have lost lots of hair over the past decade or so trying to locate the "expired" articles to move them to some different category or archive them. It doesn't seem like brain surgery level coding would be required to implement this, but perhaps I am wrong. OR perhaps this issue has been taken care of in Joomla 4 - which I have not yet had a chance to peruse.