accumulating shapshot folder in repldata

Hi all,
I found that my testing server is accumulating shapshot folder in repldata.
Everytime, we refresh the tables (snapshot publication), a new folder created
without the old folders. And I found that there is at most 1 snapshot
folder remain in production server. Any parameter to adjust the retention
period of the snapshot folder? Thanks in advance
It is normal to create a date stamped snapshot folder within your main
publication snapshot folder, for example within here
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL
Server\MSSQL.2\MSSQL\repldata\unc\Publisher_P2P1_P 2P1
These are normally cleaned up by one of the clean up jobs.
Hilary Cotter
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"stephanie" <stephanie@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:24DD103F-DFB5-4331-B04C-B2E3E9ECBB12@.microsoft.com...
> Hi all,
> I found that my testing server is accumulating shapshot folder in
> repldata.
> Everytime, we refresh the tables (snapshot publication), a new folder
> created
> without the old folders. And I found that there is at most 1 snapshot
> folder remain in production server. Any parameter to adjust the retention
> period of the snapshot folder? Thanks in advance
|||This should remain until the distribution retention period is reached (named
subscriber not yet initialized or anonymous subscribers enabled) or all
subscribers have been initialized. After that the cleanup agent will delete
the folder.
Paul Ibison
|||I found the distribution transaction retention is 1-12 hrs only and there is
2 snapshot folders generated more than 1 weeks ago. Any idea? Thanks a lot.
"Paul Ibison" wrote:

> This should remain until the distribution retention period is reached (named
> subscriber not yet initialized or anonymous subscribers enabled) or all
> subscribers have been initialized. After that the cleanup agent will delete
> the folder.
> Paul Ibison