Freeing space in the framestore

Flame Flame Questions
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Being very un-knowledgable about the archiving and framestore side of Flame, i’m wary of what can and can’t been removed.

I need to free up some space as my framestore is looking like its heading into the red (even though its on a raid with over 5tb free)
I have deleted a bunch of old projects, then run vic then run vic -r…and restarted Flame and there doesnt seem to be any change in the number of available frames.

Do i need run vic -f to remove those frames related to the deleted projects?
Just nervous about doing that in case i erase important stuff from other projects!

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Is there a “recovered frames” project? If so, I would start by deleting that. What version are you running?

And for what it’s worth, you shouldn’t be doing any of this without being fully archived.

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Yes…most stuff has been archived. There were several recovered frames projects and already deleted those.
Currently on 2022.1 (on mac)

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Have a look at
/opt/Autodesk/sw/sw_purge

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thanks…how do i tell that to purge a different partition? seems to automatically purge 0, when mine is partition 1.

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./sw_purge --h

Usage: ./sw_purge
[-p (default = 0)]
[-H Framestore Name/Id (default: local)]
[-c (check for orphan files)]
[-D (delete orphan files) ]
[-R (delete remote files) ]
[-F (force deletion even if mount point inaccessible) ]
[-h (this help message) ]

so something like this. archive first.
sw_purge -p 1 -D

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Thanks Miles…looks scary!