Deleting Multiple Baggage Files

[Guest]

I am purging our Knowledge Base to eliminate dozens of topics we don't need anymore. Any of those topics included as many as ten+ PDF documents that could be downloaded. All the topics are gone, but these PDFs are still sitting in the project as baggage files. I am watching my hair go white deleting all of these things one at a time - the delete process itself takes longer than it takes to delete other files, for some reason.

Is there another way to delete baggage files in batches? Maybe in a file - without freaking out the project?

Looking forward to learning something new - Laurin

[RoboColum_n_ · Accepted solution]

Hi lmarden. The file you require is the rhbag.apj file in your project's directory. Take a backup, open it in a text editor and delete at will.

[Guest]

Excellent! Thanks so much - that did the trick.

[HKabaker]

Hi, Imarden.

If you look in your project directory in Windows Explorer, are the .pdf files still there, even though you deleted them from the project?

Harvey

[Guest]

Yeah, they are still there. Can I delete them in Windows Explorer, now that they are out of the project? Or will everything go BOOM??

[HKabaker]

Yes, delete them, or it's likely they will get published.

For super-safe, belt-and-suspenders precautions, make sure the project is not open when you delete the files. It shouldn't matter, but . . .

H

[Guest]

Will definitely purge them - and you're right. Why take chances. I'll close and backup and then delete the files. Thanks for the heads up.