Deleting GW OFFILES Attachments

[gillis]

Hello,

The large attachments are taking up over 30% of server storage space. I would like to remove the majority of large ones, prioritizing by date. Obviously GWise encrypts but a while back I was somehow able to at least determine which attachments belonged to whose mailbox so I could warn them. Couldn't read anything but somehow associated the mailbox id in explorer. Was I dreaming? Can't for the life of me remember now how I did it. Or does someone have a logical way to approach this without simply deleting everything in the OFFILES folder and then setting limits.

Thanks for any suggestions,

JG

 

[mtbiker]

Are you thinking of GWCHECK ??

It would identify user with the database file. Best of all you can go in and delete or archive data in the folder to reduce size.

Hope this helps

Bill

 

[gillis]

Bill, thanks for the response. We've used GWCheck before; however, my problem lies in the OFFILES folder where large attachments are stored and I'm not sure if GWCheck looks there. It was my understanding it only works on the mailbox records and databases which are stored in different folders than the large attachments. If that's not right and you (or someone) knows how I can use it to identify who is hoarding old emails with big attach.'s I'd be grateful for some help.

I need to prune the OFFILES folder down below the eventual limit I'll place on it. However, I need to do it "discriminately"; i.e., start with older first and work forward until a reasonable size. The OFFILES folder is split into a ton of sub-folders, all of which contain large file attach. No way to get all in one place and see size/date so I can selectively remove.

This probably makes no sense...thanks for trying.

JG

 

[mtbiker]

Actually you do make sense. I had similar issues.

GWCheck is the only utility I'm familiar with. It does show the users mailbox and it's size in Mb's. I'm not sure if it included the attachments, I would only assume that if the attachment is connected to the e-mail, then what ever happens to the e-mail, happens to the attachemnt. IE: if the e-mail is deleted, then the attachment is deleted.

Try some of the shareware utilities:

http://www.novellshareware.com/

Maybe it'll have something.

Good Luck


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Bill [:<}

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