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MichaelDouglas10-Marble
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November 27, 2012
Question

purging in creo 2.0

  • November 27, 2012
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Can someone help me with this?

Mike

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    DRFaust12-Amethyst
    12-Amethyst
    November 27, 2012

    Mine is:

    Home tab>Utilities>Open System Window

    Then I type in purge > Select Enter

    Then I type Exit.

    Good luck...

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    SergDubrovskiy1-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    November 28, 2012

    Create mapkey

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    Wheelsofsteel10-Marble
    10-Marble
    November 28, 2012

    Mike

    With Creo, changes were made to how some extenal batch files are handled, e.g. PURGE

    We had the same problem until we contacted our support contact

    This is the extract from the email

    Dear Peter,

    Regarding the issue of purge command, could you please test these things

    1. Set an environment variable called PATH to bin folder (example C:\PTC\Creo 1.0\Parametric\bin)

    1. Set config.pro option terminal_command to C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe

    1. Ensure purge.exe file is available at C:\PTC\Creo 1.0\Common Files\M040\x86e_win64\obj

    1. PTC installation folders should have write permissions

    Please let us know if it fixes

    Dear Peter,

    Could you please environment variable like this

    %SystemRoot%\system32;C:\PTC\Creo 1.0\Parametric\bin

    Please let me know if it fixes the issue

    After we did set the environment variable like this, PURGE worked again

    The vairables they are talking about are in the computers control panel, and the path should be what your path is to reach the bin folder

    Peter

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    TomD.inPDX17-Peridot
    17-Peridot
    November 29, 2012

    Actually, with Creo 2.0, all you need to do is add the path to the bin folder to your system path statement as Peter said.

    In my case, I added this to the -system variables- path statement:

    ;C:\Creo2-M020\Creo 2.0\Parametric\bin

    To get to the path statement in Windows 7, type "path" in the start menu search; edit the system environment variables; environment variables; look for path in the system variables.

    I use notepad to edit the path statement with copy and paste. Some path statements can get quite extensive.

    once this is done, use purge as normal, open the command prompt in the folder you wish to purge and type "purge" and all will be done. Just remember to update the path each time you upgrade the software home folder.

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    MichaelDouglas10-MarbleAuthor
    10-Marble
    November 29, 2012

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    Ok, the purge command has worked. I purged about 20 folders 2 of them returned this error and would not purge. Any thoughts?

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    TomD.inPDX17-Peridot
    17-Peridot
    November 29, 2012

    Interesting... yes, I've seen that error too. There are actually 2 files that it has trouble finding. Oddly enough, PTC has several versions of that file floating around for different products.

    I found the Creo version of the file and put it in the windows system32 location where all DLL's reside.

    You might also put in a customer service ticket to find out how to avoid this error. I haven't seen it since I copied the appropriate files to the System32 folder, but it would be good to know what is actually suppose to happen.

    Maybe that is what taking ownership of the Creo application folders is suppose to solve. I haven't done that on the latest install (M020)

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    Subhojit_TTL1-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    December 4, 2014

    Create a purge.bat file.

    Set the envirinmentvariable.

    open system window.

    and use purge command.

    it will work.

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    MichaelDouglas10-MarbleAuthor
    10-Marble
    December 4, 2014

    can you show me an example file

    we have files stored in folders with these names

    z:/500x

    z:/510x

    z:/520x

    etc..

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    TomD.inPDX17-Peridot
    17-Peridot
    December 4, 2014

    This is the batch file PTC provides with the install called purge.bat and resides in the Creo../bin folder.

    @echo off

    set MC=unset
    if "%PROCESSOR%" == "INTEL_64" set MC=ia64_nt
    if "%PROCESSOR%" == "INTEL_486" set MC=i486_nt
    if "%PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE%" == "IA64" set MC=ia64_nt
    if "%PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE%" == "AMD64" set MC=x86e_win64
    if "%PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE%" == "x86" set MC=i486_nt
    REM cygwin sets this on 64bit OS
    if "%PROCESSOR_ARCHITEW6432%" == "AMD64" set MC=x86e_win64
    if not "%MC%" == "unset" goto mc_done
    echo ERROR Cannot detect what machine type you have.
    echo Please make one of the following settings:
    echo.
    echo set PROCESSOR=INTEL_486 - For Windows NT Intel based machines.
    echo.
    echo set PROCESSOR=INTEL_64 - For Windows Intel Itanium based machines.
    echo.
    echo set PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE=AMD64 - For Windows AMD 64 based machines.
    echo.
    exit
    :mc_done

    if NOT "%CREO_DIRECTORY%" == "" goto creoset
    set APPDIR=%~dp0..
    set cf=%~dp0..\..
    set PRODIR=%cf%\Common Files\M040

    goto pdirset
    :creoset
    set PRODIR=%CREO_DIRECTORY%\Common Files\M040
    :pdirset

    set PRO_MACHINE_TYPE=%MC%

    set start_cmd=start ""

    set PRO_DIRECTORY=%PRODIR%
    set CREOAPP_DIRECTORY=%APPDIR%
    if NOT "%PTCPATH%" == "" goto ptcpathset

    set path=%PRO_DIRECTORY%\bin;%path%

    set PTCPATH=true
    :ptcpathset


    "%PRODIR%\%MC%\obj\purge.exe" %1 %2 %3 %4 %5
    :ptc_end
    exit /B %ERRORLEVEL%

    You can create a batch file that calls this file with the CD commands for an automated cleanup.

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