Cleaning Up Old QVD Files

Vital Signs creates binary qvd files housing all of the extracted data which are stored in the c:\vitalsigns\cu-name\data\qvd directory.

Note: The vitalsigns directory may be located on a different drive than c:\ .

Vital Signs, as of version 1.5, does not attempt to clean up older qvd files. In subsequent versions this may become a feature that can be enabled.

The current recommendations for cleaning up this directory to save on disk space are shown here :

Note : The names listed are the first part of the file names, there will be date stamps appended to them in the qvd directory.

Daily Member, Share and Loan File extracts

These files contain the daily extracted information for members used by the Analysis_by_Account, Summary and Loan Application documents.

It is recommended that you keep 24 months of daily files and only retain the EOM dated files older than 24 months.

ATTRDESC
COLLFILE
LNADDM
LNAP_APP
LNAP_BOASST
LNAP_BOSCOR
LNAP_TERMS
LNFILE
LNTBCL
MBRATTR
MBRFILE
MBRPROD
SHCHGOFF
SHFILE
SHTBCL
VEHCINFO
VISAINFO

Data Change Files

These files contain the data for the Spectrum Data Change document.

It is recommended that you keep 12 months of these files.

DTACHGLN
DTACHGSH

Transaction Files

These files are used by the older Transaction_Activity and newer Transaction_Analysis documents.

It is recommended that you keep 25 months of these files.

TLRHIST (only used by the deprecated Transaction_Activity document)
HIST
CL
TLRHRS