Hi Dan,
Windchill\vaults\defaultuploadvault is replica vault for the master and it should be a temporary storage for replication purpose..
As per PTC..There should not be any files referencing from this vault..To confirm that we need to select this vault from vault configuration and use remove unreferenced files(move) option.
If you see that there are still referenced files from this vault..then schedule a replication job which replicates data from this vault to master vault..
We have this replication job executes daily once..
Please let me know if this helps or you need more support on this.
regards
Venkata Kotra║Sr.Analyst, Engg Systems ║IS, HHI
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