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For more information on detaching and attaching vaults, see the Autodesk Vault Help. Also, visit the Autodesk Web site at www.autodesk.com, and search for support document TS81609. PurgeVault Data To help maintain drive space and to minimize file store size for better performance, you can purge old file versions and out-of-date information from the vault. You specify the conditions that must be met to keep a file version in the vault. Versions that do not meet the specified criteria are then removed from the vault. Basic rules of purging ■ The latest version cannot be purged. To remove a file and all its versions from a vault, use Delete. ■ File versions linked to items in Autodesk Productstream cannot be purged. To remove a version linked to an item, the item must first be deleted from the item master. ■ File versions that are labeled cannot be purged. ■ Locked files cannot be purged. ■ If a file to be purged is checked out, an extra version is maintained. ■ Children with a dependent parent version cannot be purged until the parent version has been purged. 1 Select a vault from the main view. 2 Click Actions ➤ Purge. 3 In the Vault Version Purge dialog box, turn on the check box next to each of the selection rules to determine the data to purge: Versions except Specify how many file versions to leave in the vault. latest Versions older than Specify the age of files to purge. days Exclude versions Enter a text string contained within the Comments where comment field of the files in the vault. Any files containing contains this string are excluded from the purge process. 4 Click OK. 106 | Chapter 9 Data Management Server Maintenance

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For more information on detaching and attaching vaults, see the Autodesk
Vault Help. Also, visit the Autodesk Web site at
www.autodesk.com
, and search
for support document TS81609.
PurgeVault Data
To help maintain drive space and to minimize file store size for better
performance, you can purge old file versions and out-of-date information
from the vault. You specify the conditions that must be met to keep a file
version in the vault. Versions that do not meet the specified criteria are then
removed from the vault.
Basic rules of purging
■
The latest version cannot be purged. To remove a file and all its versions
from a vault, use Delete.
■
File versions linked to items in Autodesk Productstream cannot be purged.
To remove a version linked to an item, the item must first be deleted from
the item master.
■
File versions that are labeled cannot be purged.
■
Locked files cannot be purged.
■
If a file to be purged is checked out, an extra version is maintained.
■
Children with a dependent parent version cannot be purged until the
parent version has been purged.
1
Select a vault from the main view.
2
Click Actions
➤
Purge.
3
In the Vault Version Purge dialog box, turn on the check box next to
each of the selection rules to determine the data to purge:
Specify how many file versions to leave in the vault.
Versions except
latest
Specify the age of files to purge.
Versions older than
days
Enter a text string contained within the Comments
field of the files in the vault. Any files containing
this string are excluded from the purge process.
Exclude versions
where comment
contains
4
Click OK.
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| Chapter 9
Data Management Server Maintenance