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Title: How do I mass delete photos older than 2 months?
Post by: CBiLL on January 16, 2005, 03:30:11 am

I have a Coppermine 1.2.1 and about 4,000 worth of photos  so I want to mass delete  like 3,500 photos and leaving about 500 on the server ..

I don't want to go Edit pics and click each delete pic  and I notice in Edit pic it doesn't reverse date to the oldest photo  .. what I want to do is delete all photos but keep up to 2 month old worth of photos on the server ..

Thanks
Bill

Title: Re: How do I mass delete photos older than 2 months?
Post by: kegobeer on January 16, 2005, 04:37:42 am

Coppermine doesn't have such a function.  You can write SQL to delete all pictures with an upload date <= 2 months ago, and use phpMyAdmin to run it.  Then you'll have to use your FTP program to delete the pictures (thumb_, normal_, and the original image).

Title: Re: How do I mass delete photos older than 2 months?
Post by: CBiLL on January 16, 2005, 09:23:47 am

Oh well I hope in future version they would consider adding something like that .. to delete all photo/file based on days months years etc etc .. maybe a cronjob that does a nightly clean up to remove older photos  based on what you set for ..

Bill

Title: Re: How do I mass delete photos older than 2 months?
Post by: Joachim Müller on January 16, 2005, 09:34:02 am

cron jobs are only avilable for a minority of users, so they are not an option that is being considered for the core code of future coppermine versions. However, the clean-up could be triggered by another event, and such a feature might be helpfull for others as well. Moving this thread from "cpg1.2 support" to "feature requests"...

Joachim

Title: Re: How do I mass delete photos older than 2 months?
Post by: CBiLL on January 16, 2005, 11:02:56 am

an admin trigger will be just as good fo rme .. if there was a option to set the date and then click on some icon to delete all the photo or remove all the photo based on what I set ..  such a feature like that would even be just as good if I would have to logon on every other week or so to do daily clean up .. I would still like a feature like that in admin area ..

Bill

Title: Re: How do I mass delete photos older than 2 months?
Post by: Joachim Müller on January 16, 2005, 12:32:48 pm

understood, your feature request get's noted. There's no telling though if or when it's going to be done. If you absolutely need a feature, you will have to code it I'm afraid.

Joachim