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August 21, 2021
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Can we use Renovator to delete assets? I have 10K+ assets in a folder that has sub folders that I need to retain - not clear on best/easiest tool to use.

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Best answer by diksha_mishra

@g_369 since you have sub folders that needs to be retained, the best way to do this bulk delete would be from CRXDE. Steps below:

1. Go to https://server/crxde

2. Create a new folder under /content/dam/newfolder or same level as your folder

3. Locate the folder where 10k assets reside.

3. Move the subfolders to newly created folder by dragging and dropping them.

4. Now the problematic folder only contains 10k assets.

5. Select this folder>Delete

6. Refresh the folders to confirm delete has worked as expected.

Note: the only drawback in this case is that if subfolders were published earlier, they need to be republished (as have new location now). This can be easily done using tree replication. You might need to update page references of these assets also. Try this on a local instance or lower environment to understand the impact better.

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@g_369 since you have sub folders that needs to be retained, the best way to do this bulk delete would be from CRXDE. Steps below:

1. Go to https://server/crxde

2. Create a new folder under /content/dam/newfolder or same level as your folder

3. Locate the folder where 10k assets reside.

3. Move the subfolders to newly created folder by dragging and dropping them.

4. Now the problematic folder only contains 10k assets.

5. Select this folder>Delete

6. Refresh the folders to confirm delete has worked as expected.

Note: the only drawback in this case is that if subfolders were published earlier, they need to be republished (as have new location now). This can be easily done using tree replication. You might need to update page references of these assets also. Try this on a local instance or lower environment to understand the impact better.

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G_369Author

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Thanks, I understand the recommended approach. However, I misstated the volume of assets that I need to delete (seriously misstated) There are a total of 110K in the folder, with 51K directly under the parent path. As a result, I cannot open the folder in CRX, this also means that 60K images are in the sub folders. I believe the sub folders are optimized as they are in date based folders that limit total assets in each folder. The good news is that these are not published as they are WIP files and we are an Assets only implementation. The bad news, this single-folder volume is not uncommon across the entire repository. As you can imagine, performance is challenging at times. Also note this is under AMS services and the overall architecture is 4XL servers.

Deleting 51K at once seems impossible and why I am turning again to Renovator. I ran a files report on the WIP folder and created worksheets to reduce the volume should I use the tool to "move" them to a temporary folder where we will delete. My concern is I understand the "move" is actually a delete and recreate process in AEM. If so, this seems like an added burden on the system - so is there a recommend limit on how many "renovator moves" I would target?

Any thoughts on how else I could achieve my objective?

diksha_mishra

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Understood. Thank you for sharing more details. As far I can suggest, you might need to disable DAM Update Workflow first. This will help manage any extra load on the system and files will simply move from your current folder to a temp folder. Please try the renovator with 10-20k assets at a time. I hope this will be a successful operation, please keep us posted.

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