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rsnider-21-Visitor
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November 30, 2015
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Purging windchill viewable database

  • November 30, 2015
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How to purge out of date viewables from windchill viewable database.  Windchill 10.2  Visualization Services Guide is no help.

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ChrisPLM12-Amethyst
12-Amethyst
December 1, 2015

Hello Rex

what we did was not to purge the out of date but republish them.

In the Publish Manager you have various option one is RepublishOutOfDate

Maybe this helps.

Best regards

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rsnider-21-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
December 1, 2015

Chris,

Thank you for responding.  I guess I was not exactly clear.  I do know about republishing out of date objects.

What I really mean is how does one purge the ever increasing data base of objects that were published and are no longer needed.  When an object is published the system does not remove the old published images, it just creates another and stores it on the server with all the others.  This eats up storage space unnecessarily.  Of course when the viewable is needed the system knows to bull the latest for the end user so why keep the old ones?

Rex

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TomU23-Emerald IV
23-Emerald IV
December 1, 2015

You need to purge unreferenced files from Windchill.  See CS56539.

To remove Unreferenced Files: 

  1. Login to Windchill as a Site Administrator
  2. Navigate to Site -> Utilities -> File Server Administration -> Vault Configuration
  3. In the Vault Configuration UI select the Vault  you want to process in the left hand navigator
  4. From Object menu select Remove Unreferenced Files
  5. In the Notice pop up Windows, select Move files instead of deleting if you want to move the files instead of deleting them
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