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Is there any way to clean out old linked or content files in luminis?

Submitted by phillies40 on Tue, 2010-01-12 13:18

Hi all

Is there any quick way to delete old linked files and content files in Target Announcements, Groups or Channels that no longer used by the system?  Thanks!

 

Alan

PCOM

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have you decided what ones are old

Submitted by libdms on Wed, 2010-01-13 06:58.

I would be reluctant to advise a "quick" way to handle all three types of content.

For Group Studio groups, use some SQL to determine which group's content you no longer need - perhaps

select * from GT_FILE where /* some sensible date criterion */

also GT_PHOTO etc

could also combine this with a search of the directories containing the files (n.b. configman -x will reveal this, but it is simpler to look at the link for one of the pieces of content)

Once you are satisfied, then remove the files and delete the database entries referencing the files. (Of course this depends on confidence and competence levels.)

 

For Targeted Announcements, I do not know what Luminis does with content for expired announcements. Again you can look in the database (and/or the TCC html fragment files) to find out which ones are referenced. Again, it should be simple to determine where the files are held.

 

For Channels, this is very much more open (apart from TCCs). It depends whether the resources are held within the .car, or on the portal web server, or on the resource tier, or on remote html sites. We have enough problem stopping web site owners from re-working all of their content and causing dead links in the Portal.

 

Once again, I urge you to take care before doing anything "quick"

Derek,

University of Leeds, UK

Thank you very much for the Reply!

Submitted by phillies40 on Wed, 2010-01-13 12:33.

Alan

PCOM

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