How to Delete or Recreate a Local Vault View
How to Delete or Recreate a Local Vault View
Sometimes there will be a need to delete a local PDM Vault View when troubleshooting the Client/Server connection, deleting a Test Vault View, or the PDM Server was moved to a different machine. Regardless of the reason, the steps below will explain how to delete the Vault View as well as how to create a new one.
Sometimes there will be a need to delete a local PDM Vault View when troubleshooting the Client/Server connection, deleting a Test Vault View, or the PDM Server was moved to a different machine. Regardless of the reason, the steps below will explain how to delete the Vault View as well as how to create a new one.
Delete the existing PDM Vault View by right-clicking on the Vault View as shown below:
Select the first option to leave the contents of the folder in place in case you cannot check in files before beginning this procedure as shown below:
a. If the goal is only to delete the Local Vault View, the files left in the folder can be reviewed and deleted later.
b. If the goal is to delete the Local Vault View and create a new one of the same name, rename the folder as shown below:
In order to create the new Vault View, use the Windows shortcut by clicking the Windows Start icon and typing in “View Setup”. Select the View Setup tool as shown below:
Place a check next to the name of the Archive Server. This step connects the Client machine to the Archive Server tables where all the files are stored in the Vault. Click Next as shown below:
Place a check next to the Vault name to be created and click Next as shown below:
a. Note any other Vault Views that have already been connected will be grayed out.
Select the location of the Vault View, select for all users, and click Next as shown below:
a. It is recommended to always use a local drive on the machine for the location and make it accessible to any other Windows users that will be using the machine to access files in the Vault.
Finally click Finish to complete the procedure and there will be a verification afterwards displaying that the action has been completed as shown below:
- 1. Locate and delete the following registry keys if they exist (ALWAYS take a backup of the Registry before making any modifications to it).
- a. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SolidWorks\Applications\PDMWorks Enterprise\ConisioAdmin
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b. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SolidWorks\Applications\PDMWorks Enterprise\ConisioAdmin\Servers\
\FileVaults\” VaultName” - c. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\SolidWorks\Applications\PDMWorks Enterprise\Databases\”VaultName”
- d. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\SolidWorks\Applications\PDMWorks Enterprise\Databases\”VaultName”
- 2. To Open a command prompt with administration permissions (Left-click Windows Start, type CMD, right-click CMD and select "Run as administrator").
- a. Type RD "c:\path_to_vault_view" /s and close the command prompt (type “EXIT”)