Hi All,
I'm struck with one of the bad nightmares in windchill....Ghost!!!!
I have few ghost/incomplete objects surfaced up in my workspace due to a wrong duplication/save as command for top level assembly drawing used by one of my team member & now it's my duty to get rid of those unwanted files now. I tried couple of ways to eliminate those...but couldn't succeed in eliminating them all (even though i was able to remove almost half of them).
Below mentioned are the ways which I tried to eliminate ghost files,
1. Tried to use the windchill inbuilt option for ignore/update with objects on server (while checking in)...that succesfully prevented the files from getting checked in (as not seeing any check in failure/warnings messages). But if I'm checking out that assembly drawing & hitting 'save' button...the ghost appears back. I couldn't trace its exact relation to drawing. I can only see that its getting referenced by top level assembly drawing on going to information of ghost files, but no details on it.
2. Tried creating 'dummy' files for breaking the relation, but on importing it to workspace I can see that the missing link between the specific file & top level assembly drawing is getting stronger (which makes its impossible to remove those any more from workspace without removing the drawing). But still no luck in getting any details on the reference it has with drawing.
3. I'm able to delete those ghost files manually from workspace (even if drawing is there in the workspace), but on hitting the 'save' button...the ghost are back in scene.
4.. Went inside each & every subassembly at minute level to check if there are any suppressed components or missing reference items are present or not, but all assemblies seems to be perfect in that aspect.
5. Used reference viewer inside Creo, but not use
I ran out of options on eliminating it & getting stuck on it.....kind of dead end
So any suggestions/tips to tackle this issue....
Thanks in advance,
Vineeth