Hi Itay,
How can I efficiently delete a folder and its contents?
If your domain is running LON-CAPA 2.11.0, and your web server is
using SSL (i.e., URLs begin: https://), then your Domain Coordinator
can enable webDAV for all authors (or for just selected authors).
See: https://loncapa.msu.edu/adm/help/tex/Domain_Configuration_Quotas.hlp
With webDAV enabled for you, you could then mount your Authoring Space
as a Volume on your desktop (details on how depend on the OS you are
using).
You could then delete an entire folder by dragging the folder to
Trash, using the standard file management tools provided by your OS.
Note: if the folder contains any published resources, or likewise any
sub-folders within it contain published resources, you will not be
able to delete the folder, without first republishing those published
resources, with the "Marked Obsolete" flag set.
Note: the "Publish directory" functionality within the LON-CAPA web
interface allows you to recursively re-publish a directory marking all
resources within it obsolete.
There is an open enhancement request:
http://bugs.loncapa.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6533
to provide an interface to delete all resources in a folder using the
LON-CAPA web interface. I expect that will be addressed for the
LON-CAPA 2.12 release.
Stuart Raeburn
LON-CAPA Academic Consortium
Quoting Itay <it...@nospammail.net>:
Hi,
I am baffled by what seemed to me to be a very simple problem.
While experimenting with lon-capa I have created (role: author)
a folder with >50 resource files inside in the construction
space.
When I wanted to delete the folder using the pull-down menu, I
got an error with response that the directory has to be empty.
Now, deleting the >50 resources within the folder, one-by-one,
is no fun at all.
How can I efficiently delete a folder and its contents?
Thank you in advance,
Itay
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