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BenLoosli23-Emerald III
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December 6, 2012
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Clean up workspaces

  • December 6, 2012
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Preparing my users for an upgrade from Windchill/PDMLink 9 to 10 and want some feedback on a best practice. As part of the upgrade, all workspaces MUST be deleted before I do the upgrade.


What is the cleanest method for the users to remove their workspaces? I have asked them to do the 3 steps below. As I was thinking some more, is step 2 needed for a clean workspace delete? Will deleting the workspace only cause issues with marking the files as being removed from the workspace?


1) Check-in or undo checkout all files


2) Open each workspace and remove all files


3) Delete the now empty workspace


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SteveVinyard1-Visitor
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December 6, 2012
This wipe is key. An upgrade will give you new .wf cache files. You don’t want your cache to be from 9.1 while your new system is 10.1. You will have a LOT of Creo issues if your users don’t start with a new cache. Even on maintenance updates where it will technically “update your cache” it doesn’t do a good enough job.

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Steve Vinyard
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mlocascio1-Visitor
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December 6, 2012
Good precautionary step...


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DaveEngel1-Visitor
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December 6, 2012
My Creo launch batch file sets the .wf folder to a specific location. With each Creo/Windchill upgrade I change the location.

Something like this:

set PTC_WF_ROOT=c:\CreoWork\%USERNAME%\WC101-M020_CREO2-M020

The users cache needs to be new for each Windchill upgrade. I find it good practice to do it for each Creo upgrade as well. Users do not need to delete workspaces, however.


-Dave


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DonSenchuk12-Amethyst
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December 6, 2012

I can confirm what Steve is talking about here.


We just went through an upgrade; still on the verification stage actually. We did not delete any user workspaces. Making sure everything was checked in was the only requirement the users were forced to comply with. Once the upgrade was complete (onto a new server as well), the workspaces were still present and full of the files the users had left in them. Of course the .wf folder had to be deleted, as many have mentioned.

In Reply to Steve Vinyard:


WS's are server side. They are part of the database that is upgraded. Can you imagine what an immense amount of work it would take to literally delete all workspaces before an upgrade for 300+ CAD users out of the database? It's not needed in the least and I've never seen it in a PTC upgrade guide (not saying much though).

Just a note, I'm strictly referring to server side workspaces (ones visible via a web browser. I do of course always have users remove their .wf cache


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mpendep1-Visitor
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December 20, 2019

DonSenchuk,

Did your users received any cache error after upgrade since you did upgrades without deleting the Workspace?

Cause we are about to upgrade from CREO 3 - 4, and the discussing is, if we should advise our CAD users to delete their Workspace or just make sure they check in/save all their work to WC will be sufficient.

 

thanks!

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We just went through an upgrade; still on the verification stage actually. We did not delete any user workspaces. Making sure everything was checked in was the only requirement the users were forced to comply with. Once the upgrade was complete (onto a new server as well), the workspaces were still present and full of the files the users had left in them. Of course the .wf folder had to be deleted, as many have mentioned.

 

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BenLoosli23-Emerald IIIAuthor
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December 20, 2019

If you are only doing a Creo upgrade, you should be fine with them checking everything in.

When doing Windchill upgrades you do need to delete the old cache files (.wf folder structure) as new versions of Windchill have new cache structures.

 

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