Release Deleted Members
Note: Since Release Deleted Members locks and unlocks member files, you cannot run it when there are other users in your current Job.
- Step-By-Step
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1 . Select Release Deleted Members in Home > Utilities > Utility Functions > Delete.
2 . The Select members to release screen opens with a list of members that have been deleted. The members are listed by their member number [in brackets].
Alternative 1 : Select those members on this list that you want to permanently remove from your current Job. All users must be out of the current Job, then press the OK button.
Alternative 2 : Press " Cancel " to end this Release Deleted Members operation without changing anything.
3 . Process and Create Solids takes place, and all the deleted members that you selected are removed from your current Job. If the member has been detailed and if its Detail complete date is **NOT SET**, the member detail is also removed from your current Job at this time. If that detail has been placed on a sheet, it is removed from the sheet, and that sheet is marked for plotting .
- Running Release Deleted Members makes it possible for the member numbers [in brackets] of deleted members to be re-assigned to new members that you subsequently Add in Modeling . In other words, this utility frees up " In Use " space so that you don't have to expand the " Allocated " space using the Change File Sizes utility.
- Once you have run Release Deleted Members, you can no longer recover deleted members using Undelete Members , Visual Undelete or Quick Undelete . Also, "
Show all " on the drawing selection dialog will no longer show the released member's detail, since the detail will no longer exist.
- The released member's detail is also removed from its sheet, if it is on a sheet, and if its Detail complete date is **NOT SET**.