DMS--- C Drive frontentd document storage Issue

Question

Hello Guys,
This doubt is pertaining to DMS ,
We all know that once the originals are Saved in secured storage area inside DIR  and while accessing the originals for DISPLAY /EDIT OR CHANGE mode in the front end system the copy of originals are stored automatically,
For example: i have set my Data carrier path as C:\temp\ and when ever i process a copy will get save in frontend system.
i knew its a standard practise but i was shocked seeing my C drive its completely packed with more GB of Originals.
My request to all is
1) Will not be after an year my c drive is complely jam, my system performance will get slow due to that.
2) is there any work around so that C drive dost affect and i can still store my documehts on other disk(is this advisable)?
3) Also if the design dept when they use just imagine we have transformer pro\e(igs data) which is huge in size .just 5 files occupies huge space.
This issue strucks the whole implementation of DMS...
Help me out in this regard by suggesting a suitable method to solve this issue.
Regards,
Murali.S

Answer 1

Hi,
please see the SAP note 741388 which explains how to set the OLE2 flag and avoid that the local created copy for displaying remains on your PC. Without the OLE flag the system always creates a copy under C:\temp (maintained in DC20). But with the OLE2 flag this copy will be removed after you close the display again.
To avoid completely the copy of an temporary file to your PC you can use a BADI implementation.
There exists the BAdI method DOCUMENT_FILES01~AFTER_START_APPL .
You can implement the following coding, which deletes the file even when the user is viewing the file.  I hope this solution is useful for you.
  method IF_EX_DOCUMENT_FILES01~AFTER_START_APPL .
  DATA :
         l_str_file  TYPE string,
         l_i_retval      TYPE i.
  l_str_file = TARGET_FILE-FILENAME.
  CALL METHOD cl_gui_frontend_services=>file_delete
        EXPORTING
          filename             = l_str_file
        CHANGING
          rc                   = l_i_retval
        EXCEPTIONS
          file_delete_failed   = 1
          cntl_error           = 2
          error_no_gui         = 3
          file_not_found       = 4
          access_denied        = 5
          unknown_error        = 6
          not_supported_by_gui = 7
          wrong_parameter      = 8.
endmethod.
Best regards,
Christoph
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