Delete images from tray storage after deletion

Good morning,

We are running DW 7.3 and use Docuware to process PDF files and never save/move them to a file cabinet.  We've noticed that when the PDF is deleted from the tray, they remain in the storage folder.  Is there a setting to change this behavior?

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Good morning,
I know this problem since DW version 7.1 that I have in the production environment. Behavior is non-deterministic, sometimes deletes files and sometimes not. An additional problem is when you delete the user's Document Trays tables from the database are removed but the directory on storage remains.

I have a dedicated database for Document Trays and a dedicated storage for Document Trays.

Yours sincerely,
Łukasz Łuczak

That is exactly the behavior I 'm seeing.  The behavior of the tray being deleted but the images remaining isn't surprising as that is the situation with cabinets as well, they just warn you before you actually delete the cabinet.

Thanks for your reply.  I thought I was the only person seeing this behaviour.

Next problem with Document Tray. You have a users with Document Tray in DocuWare. When You remove user from DocuWare then Document Tray don't remove with this user. This Document Tray then have only user administrator and still is in DocuWare.

Hi Lukasz, 

this is correct, expected behaviour. A Tray is not "linked" to a user, the only relation to users are the access rights.

Greetings from Germany, 
Simon H. Hellmann
DocuWare System Consultant