Ok Graff... here goes nothing.

Lets say you get into a accident and your insurance adjuster comes out to take pictures of your car (Progressive, State Farm, we deal with all the large ones). The adjuster uses our software to upload the pictures into our systems. When they are uploaded they go into this gigantic file system that no one will let me archive.

When uploaded a simultaneous entry goes into a database table. Some customers use an application that looks to the database which points back to this large file system. Other companies do not use the software which requires the db or the files in the FS, so the large jpegs sit there doing nothing. Luckily some customers have given us the go ahead to zero out the jpegs. The name will still exist so the db wont puke, but they don't eat up all the space.

Probably more than you wanted to know about a poorly designed work flow that has been in place since I was a toddler.

In reply to Re^2: Zero out particular file extentions once found by trenchwar
in thread Zero out particular file extentions once found by trenchwar

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