Delete studies based on age

One solution I am considering is to set a task via third party application to delete images older than 3 days from disk. I can then manually do a database regen periodically. It would help if there is a way to automate database regeneration, say every night.

Thanks.

Mukoya.

Hi,

you need a scheduler program, and call dgate -r.

This may work as well at 3:00am. Note that the GUI needs to closed or log to file only for this to work.

[lua]
nightly = servercommand('regen:')

But a lua program to select the information and calling dicomdelete() might be more efficient. Otherwise let it clean the database automatically by simulating a disk full condition,

Marcel

Thank you very much for your response.

I will try your suggestions and let you know.

regards.

Hi Marcel,

I used the first option and so far it is working great: An application runs every 6 hours to delete dicom files older than 3 days>A scheduler programs runs a batch file with "dgate64 -r", regenerating DB every 3.am. I have set the two tasks not to coincide. Regen takes 6-10 mins, deletion takes about a minute.

So far so good.

Much appreciated.

mukoya.