Try PURGELINK on each file.
We use this to purge files that we want to overwrite even if the files are being accessed.
>>>>>>>
HP reviewed our Memory dump
and informed us that we've reached a maximum of 70,000 files within a
single group.
We've idenfified 40,000 files to purge. However the system crashes
whenever we attempt to purge files from this.
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