[LON-CAPA-users] How to delete a folder in construction space

Itay itayf at nospammail.net
Mon Sep 22 14:27:43 EDT 2014


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 <itayf at 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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