topic Deleting files in contentstore in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/deleting-files-in-contentstore/m-p/296727#M249857 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Several weeks back, I deleted a parent node through Share that had quite a lot of child nodes (probably 60,000+ PDF files and folders).&nbsp; While the child nodes appear to be gone from the system, it doesn't appear that all of the child nodes were moved from the contentstore to contentstore.deleted.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I think that the move process may have been interrupted at some point and perhaps that child nodes were deleted from the database, but not deleted from the file system.&nbsp; Is this possible if the server was restarted or the service was shut down while the server was moving them?&nbsp; I need to get rid of these files on the file system as they are taking up a lot of space.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>A few questions that I think will help me get to where I need to go, but if I'm heading down the wrong path, please let me know.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Does the GUID in the contentstore folder match up to a column in the database?</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>How can I tell if an item in the contentstore folder is no longer listed in the database?</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Are there any clean up scripts in existence to check the items in the contentstore folder and move them to contentstore.deleted if they no longer exist in the database?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Am I missing something here?&nbsp; This is my first post on the forums, but I have been using Alfresco for over two years in some depth, but I've always been able to find my answer through others forum posts.&nbsp; This one, though, I haven't found any clues about.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks!</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Drew</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 04 Apr 2013 19:11:12 GMT dclauson 2013-04-04T19:11:12Z Deleting files in contentstore https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/deleting-files-in-contentstore/m-p/296727#M249857 Several weeks back, I deleted a parent node through Share that had quite a lot of child nodes (probably 60,000+ PDF files and folders).&nbsp; While the child nodes appear to be gone from the system, it doesn't appear that all of the child nodes were moved from the contentstore to contentstore.deleted.I t Thu, 04 Apr 2013 19:11:12 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/deleting-files-in-contentstore/m-p/296727#M249857 dclauson 2013-04-04T19:11:12Z Re: Deleting files in contentstore https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/deleting-files-in-contentstore/m-p/296728#M249858 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Go through this you will get most of your answers</SPAN><BR /><A href="http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Content_Store_Configuration" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Content_Store_Configuration</A></BODY></HTML> Thu, 04 Apr 2013 19:18:28 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/deleting-files-in-contentstore/m-p/296728#M249858 mitpatoliya 2013-04-04T19:18:28Z