Database Manager Does Not Delete Collected Files

 Last reviewed: April 24, 1997
Article ID: Q153650

The information in this article applies to:
  • Microsoft Systems Management Server version 1.1

SYMPTOMS

Page 213, Chapter 6, under the “Removing Collected Files from a Site” section, of the Systems Management Server 1.0 and 1.1 Administrator's guide states the following: 

   Using SMS Database Manager, you can remove both the record of the
   collected file in the site database and the collected file on the site
   server. For information about the SMS Database Manager, see the SMS
   Utilities Help file."
When you select “Delete Collected Files” in DBCLEAN, the files from the drive are not physically removed. It only deletes the pointers to them from the Systems Management Server database. In addition, a SMS Utilities Help file does not exist.

WORKAROUND

To remove the collected files, you must manually delete them from the site server. The collected files are stored in the following subdirectory: 

   SMS\site.srv\dataload.box\files.col\<site code>\<UID Code>\<SMS ID>

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Systems Management Server version 1.1. This problem has been corrected in Systems Management Server version 1.2.

Additional query words: prodsms
Keywords : kbbug1.10 kbfix1.20 kbnetwork smsdatabase smsdocerr
Version : 1.0 1.1
Platform : WINDOWS

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Last reviewed: April 24, 1997
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