Question related to deletion of archived files.

Hi everyone,
I have used the archiving object 'idoc' to archive data. However, this attempt to archive(write) failed twice and now i have two invalid sessions 632 and 633.
It has created archvied files worth 80 GB in my UNIX system, which are useless now. Is there some way by which i can clean up this data through SAP.
Please help.
Thanks,
Vinod.

Hi Vinod,
Since the archive file belongs to invalid session you can simply delete the archive files at the unix level.
Cheers,
Samanjay

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