Vault - Enable or Disable Purge

By Florentina Stirbu

When working with Vault, any file modification that is checked in will generate a new version for that file. Over time, as the number of versions increases, the File Store size will increase to reflect that.

Some of these versions are not relevant to the design history and are therefore no longer needed in Vault. Purging is the operation that can help remove these unnecessary versions. For a user to be able to purge a file in a Vault, that Vault must have purge enabled first. If it has not been enabled yet, the user will get the error below when attempting to purge:

Enabling the purge on a Vault can only be done from the ADMS console. Once an admin has logged into the ADMS, all they need to do is right click the Vault -> Purge…

Then select “Yes” on the prompt below:

There is no need to complete a purge operation, selecting Yes is enough to make purge available in the Vault client. The dialog that comes up can simply be closed.

The purge feature can be disabled from the command prompt :

cd VaultServerInstallFolder\ADMS Console

Connectivity.ADMSConsole.exe -Odisablepurge -NVaultName -VUAdminuser -VPAdminpassword

i.e. below I’ve disabled the Purge feature for my Support Vault.

After disabling, error 1141 will be shown again in the Vault client purge wizard and purging from the ADMS console (Right click the Vault -> purge...) will show the enable prompt again.