Manually Delete Quarantined Files

Quarantine Maintenance enables you to configure manual and automatic settings to delete quarantined files according to the time period you choose.

• WARNING! Be sure to perform regular quarantine maintenance, and restore or delete files to prevent losing important documents and also free disk space.

• In a farm environment, enable Automatic Quarantine Maintenance on only one PortalProtect server and disable it on all other Web front end servers in the same farm.

To manually delete quarantined files:

1. Click Quarantine > Maintenance > Manual tab. The Quarantine Maintenance screen appears and displays the Manual tab.

2. Under Files to delete, choose from the following options:

3. Quarantined by security risk scan

4. Quarantined by file blocking policy

5. Quarantined by content filtering policy

6. Quarantined by unscannable files action

7. Quarantined by data protection

3. Under Action, type a value in the Delete selected files older than [xx] days field.

4. Click Delete Now.

See also:

Quarantine Query

Performing a Quarantine Query

Delete, Restore, or Download Quarantined Files

Automatically Delete Quarantined Files