Hi Gavin The only other way I can think of to clean things up is to create a copy of your content class, remove any of the unwanted placeholders and then swapping the content classes being used by your pages/content. I'm not sure if this will actually be of any benefit to you though as it will still need to go through all instances (and history) of each piece of content.
The reason for the long delay when removing old placeholders is because the system is going through each instance of the template, removing the placeholder in question and then cleaning up the database so all the content for that field is removed too, even from the page's history. The longer you leave cleaning up placeholders, the more tricky it becomes to clean them up unfortunately. Paul On 1 Apr 2010, at 02:27, Gavin Cope wrote: > If you've ever had to delete a placeholder from a content class that has a > large number of instances, you've no doubt seen it takes a _long_ time and > eventually times out. This appears to have no ill effects long term and the > system continues just fine in my experience. > > So my question is, does anyone know if it's possible to delete placeholders > another way that avoids the lengthy operation (and subsequent grinding the > CMS to a halt)? > > As a bit of background info, we're trying to clean up placeholders that are > no longer used anywhere in the content class templates. > > Cheers, > > Gavin > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RedDot CMS Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/reddot-cms-users?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RedDot CMS Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/reddot-cms-users?hl=en.
