Understanding the waring “folder contains hidden files you may not delete” when destroying Files in PDM Vault.

The warning “folder contains hidden files you may not delete” will show when you try to destroy a folder could be caused potentially of two reasons:

1. Not having adequate user permission on some of the files contained within the folder

• Double check your user permissions or make sure to login as system admin. Sometimes the files could be in a private state that requires users to have permissions checked for “may see files before initial check-in (Private State)”

2. Orphaned files in the folder

• Sometimes, “orphaned” document records still linked to the folder in the database could prevent the delete.
• Add a new temporary text file (*.txt)  to the folder which you are not able to destroy/delete. Doing so will activate an orphaned record cleanup process, which should let you delete the folder.
• or, if the previous step does not help then you can use the “CleanupOrphanDoc80.sql” script to try to remove such records. (refer to KB Solution S-028962).

Nikesh Shrestha

Applications Engineer Central Innovation

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