Purge keeping original date

Has anyone writen a purge routine that purges mass amount of drawings and
saved them and then set the file date back to the original date? Might
reqire doslib or something. I'm thinking of writing and just wanted to check
if anyone elses has tried.

Kevin

 

Don't think you can.
The drawing is physically changed and in fact e 'new' file for windows thus
it becomes a new date.
Next people start asking "i want to throw half the drawing away and i must
keep the same date" !!

If you want files to remain unchanged on disk, clean them up after the last
edit.

Jan

 

I just want to sweep through our server and cut down the file size of
drawings from past projects.
I have found a way to do it, I can purge the drawing through lisp and then
save it and run a command line dos program that will set the date to match a
reference file like the BAK file.

Kevin

 

Kevin,

You might want to take a look at SmartPurger at www.jtbworld.com
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Best Regards, Jimmy Bergmark
CAD and Database Developer Manager at www.pharmadule-emtunga.com
Take a look at
JTB FlexReport (FLEXlm report tool) - www.jtbworld.com/jtbflexreport
SmartPurger (Purges automatically) - www.jtbworld.com/?/smartpurger.htm
or download some freeware at www.jtbworld.com
More on AutoCAD 2005;
www.jtbworld.com/autocad2005.htm