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jwagh17-Peridot
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January 29, 2014
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Mapkey to delete export log files

  • January 29, 2014
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My goal is to delete the DXF and DWG export log files that get created. If anyone knows of a setting to prevent them from even being created, that would be appreciated. However, I don't think there is. So I'm trying to do it using a mapkey. The location of the log files is the working directory. If I use the full path in the mapkey, it works. But I would like to use some Pro/E command that will automatically know the path.

Works:

mapkey dl @SYSTEMdel C:\\Users\\BOB\\Desktop\\*__out.log.*;

Doesn't Work:

mapkey dl @SYSTEMdel C:\\proe_dir\\*__out.log.*;

mapkey dl @SYSTEMdel proe_dir\\*__out.log.*;

mapkey dl @SYSTEMdel %proe_dir\\*__out.log.*;

mapkey dl @SYSTEMdel %proe_dir%\\*__out.log.*;

Any thoughts on this?

Is there a good resource on using the SYSTEM command for the mapkey besides just using regular dos commands? Like any Pro/E specific commands (if there is one for the current directory.

Thanks!


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Best answer by jwagh

Ok.

So I figured out how to do this, although it still doesn't answer my questions.

It appears to me that once the user is in the working directory, the del command will work without a path.

So using the below works:

mapkey dl @SYSTEMdel *_out.log.*;

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jwagh17-PeridotAuthorAnswer
17-Peridot
January 29, 2014

Ok.

So I figured out how to do this, although it still doesn't answer my questions.

It appears to me that once the user is in the working directory, the del command will work without a path.

So using the below works:

mapkey dl @SYSTEMdel *_out.log.*;

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Jose_Costa12-Amethyst
12-Amethyst
January 29, 2014

I haven´t found a good solution for this too.

I always export to the same folder, so I created a mapkey that calls a batch file to delete junk files in that specific folder.

Every time I export something through my mapkeys this batch file is called and the folder is cleaned.

Not perfect, the best for now.

Jose

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jwagh17-PeridotAuthor
17-Peridot
January 29, 2014

thanks for your response. I'm pretty happy now with the fact that I no longer need a path, since the session is already at the right location. The del filename works fine. You might be able to do that too without a batch file - just another few lines of code or another mapkey.

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Inoram14-Alexandrite
14-Alexandrite
January 29, 2014

If you are set on doing it through Pro, I'm not sure. But the way I do it is with a purge batch file, right mouse-click in Windows Explorer type way. If you are interested in that I talked about it here.

http://communities.ptc.com/thread/52283?tstart=30

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jwagh17-PeridotAuthor
17-Peridot
January 29, 2014

My method is just within the mapkey, I use:

mapkey(continued) @SYSTEMdel *__out.log.*;\

mapkey(continued) @SYSTEMdel current_session.pro;\

mapkey(continued) @SYSTEMdel Mapkey.idx;\

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