Bulk deletion of images from MB container

Shete

Hi,

I want to delete images in bulk from containers but not container. Some of the MB containers have images >20K. We are using MB 4.6.1 ver.
Currently I am trying to delete 90 days old images using following code. I found that if image count is appx greater than 10K then mbServer.GetAssetList doesn't return anything. Is there any way to query in batches?
Or it would be great if you can suggest any alternate solution.

Thank you,
Shete

MediaBin mbServer = new MediaBin("serverNAme");
try
{

MBAsset[] assets = mbServer.GetAssetList("{container GUID}");
foreach (MBAsset asset in assets)
{
MBMetadata data = mbServer.MediaBinServer.GetAssetMetadataItem(asset.mID, "{5BE195E7-0726-11D3-9DDE-0060081F836F}");
DateTime insertDate = (DateTime)data.mValue;
DateTime currentDate = DateTime.Now;
TimeSpan ts = currentDate.Subtract(insertDate);
if (ts.Days > 90)
{
// delete asset
mbServer.DeleteAsset(asset.mId, asset.revision);
}

}
}
catch (Exception e)
{
file.WriteLine(e.Message);
}

msnider

Instead of doing an iteration over the entire contents of a container, you should do a search within that container for assets whose insertion date are older than 90 days. That would return a much smaller set of assets to delete.

In doing this, you should use Search_GetAssetIDsOnly which is a much faster call then the standard Search call.

Mark