Removing a messaging engine from the configuration does not automatically delete the file store files. You must also find and delete the log file, the permanent store file, and the temporary store file from the disk to reclaim disk space.
Files comprising a file store still remain when the messaging engine is deleted. If you are using the default values for the file store directory names, you can delete and then re-create a messaging engine with the same name without manually removing the files. This is due to the presence of the universal unique identifier (UUID) of the messaging engine in the default log and store directory names of a file store.
C:\{USER_INSTALL_ROOT}\filestores\..\messagingengine0\..\logfile
The
log file in the new files store is:C:\{USER_INSTALL_ROOT}\filestores\..\messagingengine1\..\logfile
The
two log files coexist in the same file stores directory. You do not
have to delete the old files.After deleting the files left by the redundant file store, free disk space becomes available to your file system.