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Purge Non-PW files from working directories

When files are deleted/renamed, they are not always deleted from the working directories.  There needs to be something that will clean up the working directories so that only those files registered in PW remain.

  • Buddy Branham
  • Jul 10 2019
  • Future consideration
  • Guest commented
    03 Dec 14:09

    A PW working directory clean up tool would be good. I would like to build me a list of the files that are not registered in PW and ask if it is ok to delete these files.

  • Buddy Branham commented
    July 11, 2019 19:45

    Looking for something that looks in local directories and reads the files that exist. If the file is not registered with PW, then it deletes it.   This could be done with a "clean up" option on right click of folder (with option for sub-folders) or possibly some in the managed workspace loading that looks at variable with folder wildcards, and verifies that extra files are not there.  This has been mostly an issue with .xml, .cfg, etc. type files.

  • Admin
    Phil Conard commented
    July 11, 2019 18:26

    There is an existing enhancement request to provide some automation around controlling the working directory. Something along the lines of purging based on time or file size. Would that match what you are looking for here?