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Obliterate Script Unavailable after Uninstalling Tableau Server for Windows

Дата публикации: Sep 11, 2025
Описание
After uninstalling Tableau Server 2018.2 and newer versions from Windows, the Obliterate script is not available to clean up additional files left on the system.

Cause

Removing Tableau Server also removes the obliterate script. 
Решение

Download the attached tableau-server-obliterate.txt and refresh-environment-variables.txt to the same folder.
Change the file extension of the two files from .txt to .cmd. Download links for the attachments are found at the bottom of this article.
Follow the instructions in Remove Tableau Server.

Дополнительные ресурсы

Preserving Tableau Server back up and log files

In previous versions of Tableau Server, running the tableau-server-obliterate script deleted all content from the Data directory. Beginning with version 2020.1, the default behavior of the tableau-server-obliterate script has changed: the script copies and saves Tableau Server back up and log files to the logs-temp directory. The default location for the logs-temp directory is at \ProgramData\Tableau\logs-temp. You can set options on the script to disable this new functionality.

To change the default behavior and to remove back up or log files, include on of the following options when running the tableau-server-obliterate script:

  • -k Do not copy backups to logs-temp directory.
  • -g Do not copy logs to logs-temp directory.
  • -a Do not copy anything to logs-temp directory.
Номер статьи базы знаний

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Вложения

tableau-server-obliterate.txt

11 KB

refresh-environment-variables.txt

1 KB

 
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