Purging and Archiving If you never purge or archive, your system will continue to work as usual. However over time the current invoice file will increase in size, causing searching and reports to take longer, having to parse thru older information. Archiving and purging provide a way of putting completed stuff into the history files, and keeping only later invoices in the current files. Archive means COPY completed invoices (and optionally Quotes) to the O/E History file. The source invoices or quotes remain in the Current file. Purge means Remove an invoice and its line items. In Greux, the system will not purge a invoice, UNLESS it is already in the History file, ie has been archived. Read the help files for each operation for more information. NOTE - Purging of invoices here in O/E does NOT affect the list of invoices posted to A/R customers. To remove those using a date range, see the A/R menu option: File:File maintenance:Transaction File Rebuild/Purge.