Clean Old Session Files

The Diagrams application provides a tool for removing old document session files from a project. It is available from the menu Admin Tab > Admin Tools > Project Maintenance and can be used when the Keep session files setting (KEEP_SESSION_FILES) in Diagrams Options is set to False. After selecting it from the menu, the dialog window is opened and provides the possibility to select the document types to clean:

After clicking OK the following confirmation dialog is displayed:

After clicking the Yes button all old session files connected with DB elements (of selected types) existing in the current MDB are removed. Only the files that are related with the most recent version of each element will be kept. Files that are not connected with any SCDIAG, SCTEMP or SCSTEN from the current MDB are not considered to avoid accidental deleting of important files.

Note:
Cleaning old session files allows saving disc space in the case that there is no need to keep previous documents versions, but after performing the operation it will not be possible to restore earlier sessions including the corresponding diagram file versions.

Note:
Using the Clean Old Session Files function will only remove Visio and SVG files related to old sessions, it will not remove the actual dabacon DB settings. To remove the sessions from the DB, use the Merge Changes function in Admin.