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Posted by RICHARD BROMBERG on 06/07/06 15:21
Thanks
I like that idea better than permenantly deleting stuff.
"Stan McCann" <me@stanmccann.us> wrote in message
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> "Alan J. Flavell" <flavell@physics.gla.ac.uk> wrote in
> news:Pine.LNX.4.64.0606071416060.7218@ppepc20.ph.gla.ac.uk:
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> > 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/
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