Hello Johannes, What was the "number of days" parameter value that you used when purging? If you deleted the datasets and then immediately attempted to purge them, you should set the number of days to 0. In this case, "number of days" means "purge all datasets that were marked deleted X number of days ago". Let us know if that does not work for you. Greg On Sep 17, 2010, at 6:17 AM, Johannes Eichner wrote:

Dear Galaxy dev team,

as my galaxy database folder ("galaxy-dev/database/files/000/") contains too many large files, which are not needed any more, I just tried to use the cleanup scripts to delete all stuff older than 10 days.

I executed the corresponding shell scripts in the recommended order:

delete_userless_histories.sh purge_histories.sh purge_libraries.sh purge_folders.sh purge_datasets.sh

The problem is that "purge_datasets.sh" did not remove any file from the disk (although I used the "-r" option). I also tried to run "delete_datasets.sh" in advance. According to the respective log-file ("delete_datasets.log") some dataset instances were deleted:

Examined 329 datasets, marked 329 as deleted and purged 329 dataset instances Total elapsed time: 101.456291914

However, if I try to run "purge_datasets.sh" subsequently, nothing happens:

Purged 0 datasets Freed disk space: 0 Elapsed time: 0.834518909454

Could you please help me solving this issue?

Kind regards, Johannes

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