Removing Old Files??

[VisOb]

We are having trouble figuring out how to delete old image files using
contribute, the old image files are using up extra space on the website and we
cannot work out how to delete them from the server...

We know about setting up file access permissions etc, but we don't know what
the actually process is to delete the un-used images.

Any help would be much appreciated.

[Terry_B]

Interested in this as well. I was hoping an image linked only once would be deleted when the page was.

[Alan]

no. You have do to do a second run after deleting html files, to find the
images used in them that are now orphans.
Tip- Recreate the site cache in dw, then do the sitewide find/replace and
Orphan check.

> Interested in this as well. I was hoping an image linked only once would be
> deleted when the page was.

[Alan]

ignore pls- thought this was a dreamweaver question- forgot what group i
was reading.

> no. You have do to do a second run after deleting html files, to find the
> images used in them that are now orphans.
> Tip- Recreate the site cache in dw, then do the sitewide find/replace and
> Orphan check.
>

>> Interested in this as well. I was hoping an image linked only once would be
>> deleted when the page was.

>

[christina.heikkila]

It's easiest if you use direct FTP access to the site, then use the FTP
client's delete function to get rid of the images.

But if you don't have that, you can use Contribute: navigate to the image you
want to delete (this is true for anything you want to delete: images, web
pages, Word docs, etc), then on the File menu select Actions->Delete Page.

[DKAllaire]

Any ideas how to get Acrobat from opening when we just want to delete a pdf
file?

The situation is that a person wants to delete an old pdf file but when she
navigates to it in Contribute the file opens in Acrobat outside Contribute. The
same thing happens with at least one other person. On my computer Contribute
acts the way I understand it's supposed to: shows a screen that says the name
of the file so I can use File> Delete.

[FPJR]

Definitly have the same problem and could use the FPT delete but... We use
Contribute 2 at an elementary school with 7 staff members and 60+ students
updating their pages constantly. It works real fine and there have been some
amazing results. However, we end up with hundreds of orphan images so it is not
really all that practical to search down and delete each individual image. Have
tried many different ideas but nothing works beside the FTP delete.
Any other ideas??
Thanks

[LDudd]

I think 3.1 has change how things are copied, not really looked at it, but
there is something in the release notes about documents now being replaced
instead of versioning, so maybe there is something about images there?

[christina.heikkila]

About the PDF file - don't know, when I do it (and I also have Acrobat
installed) it opens in Contribute, and I can do the File->Actions->Delete Page.

On orphan files - if you or someone else on your staff is a little 'techy',
you can do this - run a link checker on the server, such as linklint:
[url]http://www.linklint.org/[/url] (it's free). This will identify all your orphan
files. Then you could write a perl/php/whatever script that moves the orphans
into a directory while pending deletion. If no one complains about the missing
files for a while, go ahead and delete them.

[DKAllaire]

I think LDudd has the answer. Version 3.1 takes care of it. On page 157 of the
Using & Administering is the topic "Replacing a file on your website." It looks
like we can publish a new version of a non-html page directly from the
computer. Keeping the file name the same as the previous version maintains the
link.

The example used is an Excel file, so I figure it will work for my pdf and
don't see why it wouldn't work for an image.

Mission accomplished?