Purging and Archiving If you never purge or archive, your system will continue to work as usual. However over time the current P/O 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 P/Os in the current files. Archive means COPY completed P/Os to the P/O History file. The source P/Os remain in the Current file. Purge means Remove a P/O and its line items. In Greux, the system will not purge a P/O, UNLESS it is already in the History file, ie has been archived. Read the help files for each operation for more information.