Pro/PURGE - Pro/ENGINEER file purge & deletion utility

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Installing Pro/PURGE

Using Pro/PURGE

Customizing Pro/PURGE

The Pro/PURGE download is compressed using the Zip file format. Use your preferred Zip compression utility to expand this file into a temporary directory (visit www.winzip.com if you do not have one). Start the installer by running the Setup.exe application and complete the installation process.

WARNING: Pro/PURGE is designed to do one thing - delete files. If you select the wrong files to delete they will be lost forever. If you question your ability to select the correct files to delete then please do not continue. Always backup your data!

Select a directory

Select the directory that you want to purge/clean.

To purge/clean any sub-directories click the Include sub-directories checkbox.

Select the file types to purge/clean

Select the types of Pro/ENGINEER data, export and temporary files you wish to purge or delete.

Use the Toggle all buttons to select/deselect all file types in a list.

Note - you must indicate how many versions of the Pro/ENGINEER data files to preserve. The default is to preserve all versions ie. no data files are purged.

Click Start

To start processing click the Start button.

If you wish to confirm your settings before permanently deleting any files click the Verify only checkbox plus the Verbose messages checkbox.

Customizing the behavior of Pro/PURGE involves editing a simple configuration file. In the Pro/PURGE installation directory resides a file called propurge.ini. Use any text editor such as the Windows Notepad editor to make changes to this file.

WARNING: Pro/PURGE permanently deletes files. A mistake made in this configuration file has the potential to inadvertently delete the wrong files. Whenever making changes to this file always check the changes using the Verify only checkbox along with the Verbose messages option. Also always test the change on non-production files and as always backup your data regularly.

The propurge.ini file is split into three sections - Data files, Export files and Temporary files. Each section is designated by a section header eg. [DATA] indicates the start of the Data file section. Note: lines in the file beginning with the semicolon character (;) indicate comments and are ignored.

Lines between section headers describe an individual file type to purge/delete. For example the Pro/ENGINEER Part file type is described by:

*.prt.* Part files

Each file type line has two components - a file mask that's describes the file (usually by file extension) and an associated description to aid in the selection process. In the above example the file mask is *.prt.* and the description Part files.

Example

To add a new temporary file type identified by the file extension .txt add the following to the temporary files section:

[TEMPORARY]
...
*.txt Temporary files

To test your changes first save the propurge.ini file and then exit and restart Pro/PURGE. Remember to always use the Verify only and Verbose options to test your change and never test on production data.

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