Delete Models or Drawings from the Archive
General
- Use the following procedure to delete models or drawings in the archive in a controlled manner.
- The deletion cannot be undone, so it is important to have a proper backup before deletion.
- NEVER delete models in the archive using the Windows File Explorer, because then only the model or drawing file will be deleted, but the archive data will remain.
- Select the documents to be deleted by entering search criteria. As a search data, you can enter, for example, the document label, project, or any field content found on the search data card.
- When defining search terms, you can use an asterisk (*) to replace several characters or a question mark (?) to replace a single character.
- The archive documents meeting the search terms will be displayed as a list, from which you can select the documents to be deleted.
- You cannot delete an active document.
- If you select an assembly model as the file to be deleted, only it will be deleted, the parts and subassemblies that belong to it will not be deleted.
- If you select a model to delete, the drawings related to the model will not be deleted.
Delete archived models or drawings
- Select the archive from which you want to delete files:
- Models: Archives | Documents | Maintenance > Delete Models.
- Drawings: Archives | Documents | Maintenance > Delete Drawings.
- The program opens the dialog box Search Data.
- Fill in the search criteria.
- If you do not complete the search data, the entire contents of the selected archive will be listed.
- Click OK to accept the data that will be used as search criteria and perform the search.
- The program lists the models or drawings that meet the search criteria.
- Select the models or drawings you want to delete from the list.
- Select an archived document by selecting a row.
- Hold down the Ctrl key if you you want to select several documents.
- Hold down the Shift key if you want to select all documents between two documents.
- Select All/None to select the entire list or to clear all selections.
- Click OK to accept the selections you want to delete.
- The program asks: Really delete selected models/drawings?
- Answer the question
- Yes, if you want to delete the selected archive documents.
- No, if you want to cancel the deletion of the selected archive documents.