[pmwiki-users] Deleting dead WikiPages and WikiGroups

[Algis Kabaila]

On Saturday 05 March 2005 00:49, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 11:54:20PM +1100, Algis Kabaila wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > In moving from pmwiki1 to pmwiki2, I renamed some Pages and Groups and 
moved 
> > the data to the new locations via their respective edit fields.  This 
created 
> > many "dead" pages and several "dead" WikiGroups.
> > 
> > I attempted to remove the dead pages by deleting the contents, but that 
does 
> > not remove the page itself from the pmwiki.  How can they be removed 
> > permanently from the wiki site?
> 
> For this, the easiest way is to simply delete the files from wiki.d/ .

First of all, thank you, Patrick, for such prompt and informative reply in the 
"distant past" in V3-12.11, on 2005.03.05.  As always, it is informative and 
helpful - the care and speed is very impressive indeed.

It cleared my apprehension of deleting any files  in wiki.d/ directly (with 
ftp access in my case).  I feared this could "bring the house down".

I do not know php (saw it as a programming tool only a few weeks ago).  
Perhaps I should learn some of it in order to manage a wiki site?

> The normal way an author can delete pages is by changing the page's contents
> to "delete".

Though I have not read every page of the documentation of PmWiki, I can not 
find the details how to change "page's contents to "delete" and I should know 
that in order to tell users and prospective users.  Are there readers of this 
mailing list that could help, please - I feel beginners' questions should not 
be loaded on to Pm...  Of course, a word from Patrick is always welcome.

Thank you all,

OldAl.

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Al.
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