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What I know is, using rmelem to remove the folder first, and this will cause all of its child elements to be moved to lost+found . Then, go into lost+found , and repeatedly execute rmelem * until all of the elements are removed. Is there a better way? The technote about lost+found is quite clear: if you rmelem a directory, all its content will indeed be moved to lost+found , where it will has to lost+found . The technote adds: Note: If a directory element is deleted from lost+found with rmelem , its contents will be moved to lost+found in the same manner described in the first section above.

Can the project manager force cancellation of checkouts of files/directories made in any view/stream/project? How? VonC A ClearCase administrator can force all files of a given view to be considered as "not checked out" (which is the equivalent of canceling their checkout status), with cleartool rmview : cleartool rmview -force -uuid (uuid_of_the_view) -vob \aVob You can get the uuid by grepping the user in the output of: cleartool descr -l vob:\aVob See technote " Removing checked-out references of a view from a VOB ". It will work for any view (snapshot or dynamic views, base ClearCase or

What is the difference between Config specs and Load rules in Clearcase? Are both of them edited using "cleartool editcs -tag " command only? A config spec is a collection of: selection rules (for selection the right versions) load rules (only for snapshot view) for loading into your "workspace" (the snapshot view) the files selected by... the selection rules just above! You can edit both with ct edcs (just " ct edcs " if you are anywhere in a ClearCase view). Of course, in a dynamic view, you will only edit selection rules, since there are no "load rules": there is nothing to " load " on your