Replication cutoff date

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I noticed that my autosave database was rather large, because the purge interval was still the default of 30 days (1/3 of the 90 days in the “Remove documents not modified in the last (days)” setting on the Space Savers tab of my mail database. So I reduced this setting to 3 days, so deletion stubs would be purged every day. This seemed logical, because if Notes crashes, I log back in, then I can recover the autosaved docuemnt(s) and I no longer need either them or their deletion stubs.

However, since doing so, I get a daily popup. This comes the first time I create an email 24 hours after the last purge. The popup says (date I what I’ve just received) “The Replication Cutoff Date indicates that documents before 04/07/2010 16:29:36 should be purged from the database as_PWithers.nsf. Would you like it to be done now?”

Several questions:

  1. Why is the popup appearing when there are no documents to be deleted?

  2. Why has the popup started appearing? I had autosave running for more than 90 days beforehand, but never got the message before changing the Space Savers setting.

  3. How can I stop the popup appearing? I guess if I delete the database, it will automatically get recreated with the default and so not message. But that’s not a great solution, because it means I get a file that was 80Mb before I changed the setting (a colleague had one considerably bigger) clogging up my PC.

Because this only contains recovery versions of documents in case of a crash, there shouldn’t be a need to keep deletion stubs for 90 days.

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Subject: cutoff date

check the Other tab in rep setting, there is a cutoff date in there. could be the cause of the pop-up.

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Subject: Cutoff date

That date corresponds to the number of days set in the Space Savers tab, which is what I would expect.

The problem is that instead of just deleting documents created before that date, it prompts the user to confirm they want to delete document created before that date. In itself, that seems strange.

What’s more frustrating is that there never are any documents in the local autosave database for it to delete, but it still prompts the user to confirm they want to delete them.

So I’ve got a way to get the autosave from 80Mb down to 500Kb on an ongoing basis. But that means users get a prompt every day that they won’t understand and is completely superfluous because of the nature of the autosave database.