[Moin-user] Empty directories

[Kai Jaeger]

Hello Rick,

Thanks for your advice.

Getting rid of the stuff was not a problem once I was aware of it.

I am on 1.9.3 which is not exactly old! Was this really fixed in 1.9.4?


Kai



On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 4:16 PM, Rick Vanderveer
<rick.vanderveer at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey Kai,
>
> First step:
> I seem to recall that this was a bug in an old version of Moin, that a
> folder structure would begin to be created before the user authenticated.
> All of us got hit with that bug, but it was quickly fixed as I recall. So,
> your first step should be to upgrade your Moin!
>
> Second step is clean-up:
> I can't remember (I think there might've been) a clean-up script within Moin
> that helped clean up those folders (maint cleanpage?  Better wait until
> someone else weighs in on that).  Outside of Moin, there are simple scripts
> you can do (just make sure to back up your data dir *first*, then restart
> moin after running the script).  On linux:
>
> find /path/to/dir -empty -delete
>
> On Windows, there is a utility you can download:
> http://simonwai.com/developments/empty_folder_nuker/
>
> -Rick
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 7:04 AM, Kai Jaeger <kai at aplteam.com> wrote:
>>
>> Recently I noticed that clicking on a Category page took much longer
>> than it should: roughly 30-40 seconds.
>>
>> I checked the directory structure and found 18,000 empty folders!
>>
>> Because of the spammers one cannot create a page in the wiki in
>> question without answering a stupid question. That works well but when
>> somebody requests a page that does not exist yet than a new folder is
>> created despite the user getting the message "You are not allowed to
>> edit this page". And because they are doing this via a program I end
>> up very soon with thousands of empty folders.
>>
>> Is there anything that can be done to improve this?
>>
>>
>> Kai
>>
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