Hi Stuart, On Mon, Sep 22, 2014, at 08:54 PM, Stuart Raeburn wrote: > 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).
Unfortunately the domain is running a version < 2.11.0, and the server does not use SSL. I guess the only thing I could do is start negotiating with the IT people (either for 2.11+SSL, or for 2.12 in the future). Thank you for the detailed reply. Itay > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > LON-CAPA-users mailing list > LON-CAPA-users@mail.lon-capa.org > http://mail.lon-capa.org/mailman/listinfo/lon-capa-users _______________________________________________ LON-CAPA-users mailing list LON-CAPA-users@mail.lon-capa.org http://mail.lon-capa.org/mailman/listinfo/lon-capa-users
