Product

Platform

Operating system

Error

Symptoms

In some occasions, there are some folders and files in the job folder that you don't want to archive and want purge to ignore the file or folder as well.

Cause

Solution

There is a registry key in \\hkey_local_machine\Software\Creo\Araxi\Default\Settings\Archiver called ExcludeFiles that you can add the files or folders to not archive and purge.

The exclusion list is like a path, entries separated by semi-colons (";").

Directories are indicated by "\..." appended to the end of a name.

File names are case sensitive.

Specify as little or as much of the path part of a file name as you want. A directory name is taken relative to the job folder.

Optional attribute specification is of form :attr_chars and can include H for hidden, S for system, optionally preceded by minus ("-") to indicate absence of the attribute.

An attribute specification applied to a directory entry mean files in the directory must match those attributes, not that the directory itself must match.

Errors in an entry cause the entry to be ignored with a warning in DIAG.

Remember, the actual default for the exclusion list is an empty list - i.e. no change in behavior from before this feature existed.

I think a reasonable "standard" exclusion filter would be: ".DS_Store:H;System\SubPageThumbnails\ThumbCache\...;Thumbs.db:SH" (assuming that is the ThumbCache directory we have had trouble with). This will not archive and delete on purge the files left around by the Mac OS X finder (.DS_Store), anything in our ThumbCache folder, and the thumbnail cache used by Windows XP (Thumbs.db).

Permanent fix:

See also

Keywords

archiver - purge, archiver FAQs

Technical contact(s)

Amy Chan

Submitted by

Amy Chan

Date submitted

7 Nov 2002