Delete 50000 + iterations in PDMLink 9.0

[AaronMejia]

I have to delete 8 files that have around 50,000 (yes, fifty-thousand) iterations EACH. Deleting them in the normal ways has proven ineffective. I think I'm reaching some limits of windchill and that's why I haven't been able to delete them. I deleted another file with only 16,500 iterations after overriding conflicts and retrying twice, in the background.


Has anyone deleted such a large number of files from windchill? The PTC tech support engineer sounds clueless as to what to do. The method server logs don't tell much about the failure.


Should I try the purge tool? In the PTC training for business administration only mention the purge tool, but never give you an example of how to use it.

 

[FishNut]

PTC tech support needs to help you here. Have the call escalated.


I'm still on intralink, but but I'll throw a bone anyway. If there's a way to show all versions (like the intralink pro/locate) show all 50,000. thenstarting with the oldest grab a couple and see if thay can be deleted. Then maybe try 100 at a time. Sometimes I like to keep the transactions small.

 

[amansfield]

You can only manually delete from the latest version backwards. How many revisions are there; 1? more than 1?


If you want to retain some of the iterations in between revisions you'll have to use the purge feature.

 

[ProRookie]

Amansfield:


You said, "If you want to retain some of the iterations in between revisions you'll have to use the purge feature."


There's a purge feature in PDMLink?! Can you tell me where that is please? Is this because you have ProE integrated with Windchill?


-Thank you,