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Posted by Stan McCann on 06/07/06 15:28
"Alan J. Flavell" <flavell@physics.gla.ac.uk> wrote in
news:Pine.LNX.4.64.0606071416060.7218@ppepc20.ph.gla.ac.uk:
> On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, RICHARD BROMBERG wrote:
>
>> Their work habits were no better than mine and now there are dozens
>> of images that were uploaded to the Host and likewise dozens of old
>> HTML files that are completely orphaned, i.e. nothing references
>> them.
>>
>> Does anyone have a suggestion or know of a utility that will
>> identify these unused files so I can clean up the site.
> Personally, when getting rid of believed-to-be-orphaned files, I
> set their filemode on the server so that the HTTPD cannot read them,
> and then watch out for any corresponding errors in the logs for a
> while, before finally deleting them. That way, it's easy to
> reinstate any that weren't really orphaned.
I do something similar. Rather than messing with file attributes, I
rename the files placing a common extension on all files. That way, I
can delete the whole lot in one go by deleting everything in the web
space with that file extension. I usually use a file extension like
6.7.6 so somepage.html becomes somepage.html.6.7.6 and somegif.gif
becomes somegif.gif.6.7.6; same for jpg, css, php or whatever. Maybe
not better, but a bit different.
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Stan McCann, "Uncle Pirate" http://stanmccann.us/
Webmaster, NMSU Alamogordo http://alamo.nmsu.edu/
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