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cedroneg1-Visitor
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January 2, 2018
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Deleting temp files to free up disc space?

  • January 2, 2018
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Hello,

 

I am trying to free up some disc space on my PC and am trying to figure out if I am able to delete any of the files within the Temp folder on my C drive. There are a number of .cab files that I can not really find out what they are for. Am I able to delete those without causing any issues or is there anything else I can delete to free up space? Any help would be appreciated, thank you.

 

 

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Mahesh_Sharma
Mahesh_Sharma22-Sapphire I
22-Sapphire I
January 2, 2018

Most of the Creo related files are  trail.txt, .log, .dat, std.err, std.out, .lst, .acl, .crc, you may delete these files. About .cab files under temp directory, I think from temp directory there should not be any impact of deleting these. It's always better to have a backup 🙂

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    KenFarley21-Topaz II
    21-Topaz II
    January 5, 2018

    If you're running out of space on the hard drive you use to store Creo files, you might be suffering from version retention. By default, every time you save a file in Creo, it increments the number at the end of the file name and saves a new file, while retaining the last number. For example "part.prt.12" is saved as "part.prt.13". We've had times where someone was working on a large assembly and had hundreds of versions of each part, to the point where a directory that should have had about 300MB of data files was using 16GB of space.

    There's a utility program, "purge.exe" that is included with Creo that will delete all but the most recent version of the parts, assemblies, etc. in a directory. Keeping old versions is often useful when things are in development, so you can recover if you make some sort of horrible mistake, but once the design is done it's always our practice to clean up the old stuff so massive amounts of space aren't wasted.

    I've got a batch file "recpurge.bat" that I use to recursively traverse the directory structure on our server to clean up all the old versions and get rid of the temp files Creo creates. If you're interested I can post the contents of the file.

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      FN_92532671-Visitor
      1-Visitor
      July 27, 2021

      Ciao puoi postare quel contentuto del file.bat mi interesserebbe grazie mille 

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      KenFarley21-Topaz II
      21-Topaz II
      July 27, 2021

      Okay, here it is.

      ::
:: Date * 2019-10-17
:: Author * Kenneth J. Farley
::
:: Recursively traverses the directory structure, starting at the current
:: directory, and executes a purge and any other commands necessary. The
:: pseudocode for this is as follows
::
:: (1) Generate a list of directories
:: (2) For each of the directories
:: a. change to that directory, via a "pushd"
:: b. Execute the desired commands
:: c. change back to the original directory, via "popd"
::

@echo off
for /r /d %%d in ("*") do call :doPurge "%%d"
exit /b

::
:: This code is executed for each directory visited. The primary purpose is to
:: run the "purge" command, but it's also helpful to get rid of any other stray
:: files that Pro/E creates in the normal course of operation.
::
:: Note: The "2> nul" construct is used to throw away any "file not found" type
:: errors generated when the delete command doesn't find the target files
:: provided to it.
::

:doPurge
pushd %1
echo Processing %1
c:\ptc\purge
::
:: Windows generated files
::
del /ah Thumbs.db 2> nul
::
:: PTC General files
::
del current_session.pro 2> nul
del datafile.ers 2> nul
del errors.lst.* 2> nul
del fix_params.log 2> nul
del *.acc 2> nul
del *.crc 2> nul
del *.err.* 2> nul
del *.idx 2> nul
del *.log.* 2> nul
del std.err 2> nul
del std.out 2> nul
del trail.txt.* 2> nul
del *.xpr 2> nul
del *.tst 2> nul
::
:: PTC Manufacturing files
::
del *.acl 2> nul
del *.lst 2> nul
del *.mbx 2> nul
del *.ncl.* 2> nul
del *.ncl_a.tab 2> nul
del *.ncl_b.tab 2> nul
del *.ncl_c.tab 2> nul
del *.ncl_x.tab 2> nul
del *.ncl_y.tab 2> nul
del *.ncl_z.tab 2> nul
del *.tap 2> nul
popd
exit /b

      To use this, just copy the contents into a text file with a .bat extension (I call it recpurge.bat). Copy the file to the top level directory (folder), then run it in a command window. It's not a very complicated script, but it works fine for me. The trickiest part is figuring out where the "purge.exe" program is on your system. I copied it to C:\ptc on my system.

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        FN_92532671-Visitor
        1-Visitor
        July 27, 2021

        ho trovato il file pure.exe Grazie mille Buona giornata !

         

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