Not able to Purge Vault

[Anonymous]

It has been at least 6 months since we purged the vault. I go to purge it and it does nothing other than sit on the page saying 0 purged, 22855 candidates etc......

i have tried setting the purge high to start with little chunks but it does not help.......

any help and ideas would be great

Thanks!

Jim

[olearya]

Hi Jim,

I assume you are getting timeout issues here? You may want to look at SQL command imeouts - there is another thread covering this:

http://discussion.autodesk.com/forums/message.jspa?messageID=5557887

Allan (Autodesk)

[dickyshu]

Hi Jim,

Thanks for posting.

Cannot purge may due to below reasons:

*The latest version in a revision cannot be purged (the revision is never removed). To remove a file and all of its versions from a vault, use Delete.

*The leading version of a revision cannot be purged.

*File versions linked to items in Vault Manufacturing cannot be purged. To remove a version linked to an item, the item must first be deleted from the item master.

*File versions that are labeled cannot be purged.

*File versions marked as Controlled by the lifecycle definition may not be purged.

*Only the first, last, or first and last versions in a releastd state can be purged.

*Older versions of files that are currently checked out can be purged.

*Children with a dependent parent version cannot be purged until the parent version has been purged.

*The Administrator role can override purge restrictions and force the removal of versions, except for versions that are linked to items.

*For Autodesk Vault Workgroup, Colalboration, and Manufacturing editions. Files are purged based on revision and lifecycle rules unless version selection rules are defined during purge set-up.

Hope this helps,
-Dicky Edited by: dickyshu on Nov 17, 2009 3:40 AM