SID-01686: Deleting mulitple Attachments

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Hi,

I hope this is possible, is there any way to delete multiple numebr of attachements? the system to only let you delete one at a time. I need to delete ~500 attatchments, so one by one is going to take forever!

-- Brian Eney - 2013-04-19

Discussion and Answer

In the past if you had OS level access you could delete the attachments for that topic from the shell. I haven't tried it in a long while so I don't know if that technique causes problems in the meta-data.

Another option:

1. Rename the topic with all the offending attachments (do not update the links to it from other topics)
2. Create a new topic with the original topic's name
3. Populate the new topic with the content of the original (raw view and raw edit are your friends here)
4. Delete the original topic with all the offending attachments

-- Joshua Tharp - 2013-04-20

You can delete attachments using the shell. All attachments are in twiki/pub/Webname/TopicName/*. If you do so, the attachment meta data still remains in the topics, e.g. if a user clicks on a file in an attachment table she gets a 404 file not found.

To get around this you as an admin could do a edit with cmd=repRev parameter to manipulate the attachment table. Be careful not to mess up the meta data. Also, I recommend to bump up the revision with an edit/save before using the cmd=repRev so that version control records you as the person manipulating the attachment table.

-- Peter Thoeny - 2013-05-01

Hi How do I delete a file off the internet? I am trying to delete one and keep getting the following error:

Access check on Main.Username failed. Action "RENAME": access not allowed on web.

Thank you.

-- Claire Oberhofer - 2015-08-25

Claire: I presume you wanted to delete the resume from your profile page on TWiki.org. TWiki.org is a shared wiki, so to protect content, only members of the TWikiCommunityGroup can rename and delete content. I deleted the resume.

-- Peter Thoeny - 2015-08-25

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