@Dilip Namdev The fact that every "archive" sub-directory is empty leads me to believe that archive is in fact working correctly. NiFi stores FlowFile content in claims within the content repository. One claim may contain 1 to many Flowfiles. All it takes is one FlowFile to still be active in one of your dataflows (queued in some NiFi connection) to hold up an entire content claim. A content claim cannot be moved to archive unless all active flowfiles referencing that claim are complete (meaning reached a point of termination in your dataflow). - The following article explains this in more detail: https://community.hortonworks.com/articles/82308/understanding-how-nifis-content-repository-archivi.html - Aside from the above, NiFi opens a lot of file handles. Having insufficient file handles can cause issues with creation of new files. This may affect proper cleanup of both the flowfile and content repositories. I suggest making sure the user that owns your NiFi process has a high number of open file handles available to it. - Thanks, Matt - If you found this answer addressed your question, please take moment to login and click "accept" below the answer ... View more