Purge and/or Audit multiple files?

[Maverick91]

I have a set of drawings I need to work with from a client. The drawings are made up of about 40 xrefs. I want to clean up the xrefs with Purge and Audit. Is there a way to do this clean up en mas, cleaning multiple files? Or am I left to go through each one? TIA.

[jaberwok]

Use a script file - something like this -

-purge
all
*
no
audit
yes

[Maverick91]

Use a script file - something like this -

-purge
all
*
no
audit
yes

Cool. I've got a couple of buttons on my tool palette that does this for individual DWGs. Is there a way to clean multiple files at one time?

[jaberwok]

I've never used it but others keep talking about Scriptpro.

[Richard McDonald]

Mav,

"recoverall" should do the audit part of what you want.

[Charles Prettyman]

I have a set of drawings I need to work with from a client. The drawings are made up of about 40 xrefs. I want to clean up the xrefs with Purge and Audit. Is there a way to do this clean up en mas, cleaning multiple files? Or am I left to go through each one? TIA.

If you're willing to spend a little money, there are a couple of batch purge utilities available. I use Smartpurge from JTB software, and I've been very happy with it. It has a built in option to run an audit, among other things.
http://www.jtbworld.com/smartpurger.htm

I also have an audit and a purge included in my acaddoc.lsp. At the expense of a little bit more time taken every time I open a file, everything gets steadily cleaner as I work. that. combined with any scripting application that will open and save every drawing in a directory would do the trick.