/My folders/Drafts get purged after a few days

C Svard

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/My folders/Drafts get purged after a few days

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Hi all, I got a question from a user that claims that files in /My folders/Drafts get purged after a few days. The user lost hours of work.
I didn't believe the user at first and made a test myself, last week I uploaded one DM and one RPT to /My folders/Drafts folder.

Checked today and both files are gone. Have anyone seen this before? It must be a way to turn it of.

/Christian

YGUTTIKONDA

Christian,

The purpose of the Drafts is it serves as a TEMP directory to store unsaved information .. .on further digging the same was mentioned in note "Fusion BI - Catalog Files in /My Folders/Temp and /My Folders/Cache Get Purged After 25 Hours (Doc ID 2372726.1)"

"/My Folder/Temp or /My Folder/Drafts are used internally by BI, these folders should not be used to save reports. All contents in this folder get purged after 25 hours."

Hope this clarifies...

YG

C Svard

Hi YG,

thanks for your answer, now I know that it is per design and nothing wrong with our installation as such.

Best Regards

Christian

Dave Whitson

Nice to learn after losing hours of work to be redone.

I have work stored in 'My Folder/Drafts from Feb 2024 - Jun 2024. And I'm just now experiencing my more recent work getting 'purged'.

Not good.

Dave Whitson

From (Doc ID 2372726.1)

SOLUTION

/My Folder/Temp or /My Folder/Drafts are used internally by BI and are volatile, these folders should not be used to save reports. All contents in these folders get purged after 25 hours.

A new folder could be created under 'My folders' directly to save the content to it. Once the task(s) is completed, then move them to the /Shared/Custom folder.

Above could explain why not all of my work is purged. My OTBI work is what remains untouched in 'My Folder/Drafts'.