How can I purge and delete OFFILES FOLDER

Question

Hi ,
I have groupwise 7.0 version.
and I have 1 volume with 100 GB used...
and the OFFILES Folder takes most of the space, how can I reduce this
folder and not affect the mail system..
I will waiting for your comments..
Regards..
Roberto Tamez

Answer 1

Ahh, but if an a post office was set to manually delete and archive and no
expire/reduces are run. It is conceivable that an old file in the offiles
folder can be an old attachment on a old message stored in the user's
mailbox some where ?!
>>> On 10/13/2006 at 12:10 AM, in message
<wkEXg.12016$[email protected]>, Lindsey
Johnstone<[email protected]> wrote:
> [email protected]
>
>> Lindsey -
>> I have done inplace upgrades to GW 7 all the way from version 4. Are
> you
>> suggesting there is something extra in the offiles folder that may just
> be
>> remanents from 5.x ? How do you determine ?
>
> Yes, that is precisely what I am suggesting. Look at the creation dates
> of the
> files in your offile directories. Correalate that with your version
> upgrades and
> I think you will find that during the 5.5 period that there will be a
> far greater
> number of "loose ends" than during any other version period. Moving
> users enmasse
> to a new post office during the version 6 days eliminated a tremondous
> amount of
> fluff, but did not completely stop the issue from creating a ton of
> "dead" files.
> My case study is two post offices in the same domain both getting the
> same weekly
> maintenance but one having a nightly expire/reduce and the other a
> weekly
> expire/reduce. Quite phenominal to see the difference between the two
> post
> offices in the amount of "extra" files in the offile directories.