Tridion 2011 Core Service: How can I delete previous versions of a component?

Question

I would like to use the Core Service to delete previous versions of a component, only keeping the most recent version. How can I do that?

Answer 1

The documentation says about the Delete method: "Permanently deletes the item or a specific version of the item from the system"

So you can delete versions by passing in the uri of the version (e.g. tcm:2-123-64-v4).

Answer 2

Tridion ships by default with a tool called "Purge Tool" that you can use for this purpose.

• You can find more info on the online documentation

There is a visual interface, but also if you have business requirements to do this programmatically, or as a scheduled task, it also provides a command line interface.