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Automatic emptying of recycle bin does not work in CMS 5
This will delete around 1000 pages in the wastbasket before it throws an error. But it will delete them...
string DeleteStuff(bool doIt)
{
TimeSpan dbQueryDefault = EPiServer.Configuration.Settings.Instance.DatabaseQueryTimeout;
EPiServer.Configuration.Settings.Instance.DatabaseQueryTimeout = new TimeSpan(0, 10, 0);
string result = "";
string result2 = "";
int num = 0;
var wastChilds=DataFactory.Instance.GetChildren(PageReference.WasteBasket,LanguageSelector.AutoDetect(true));
foreach (PageData data in wastChilds)
{
if (data.IsDeleted && (data.Saved <= DateTime.Now.AddDays(-30.0)))
{
result += "<li>";
try
{
num++;
result += data.PageName + "[" + data.PageLink.ID + " " + data.LanguageID + "]";
if (doIt)
{
DataFactory.Instance.Delete(data.PageLink, true, AccessLevel.NoAccess);
result += " deleted!";
}
}
catch (Exception exception)
{
result += exception.Message;
}
result += "</li>";
}
else
{
result2 += "<li>" + data.PageName + " [" + data.PageLink.ID + " " + data.LanguageID + "]" + data.Saved + "</li>";
}
}
EPiServer.Configuration.Settings.Instance.DatabaseQueryTimeout = dbQueryDefault;
return "<li>count=" + num + "</li><li>Tot=" + wastChilds.Count+"</li>"+ result + "<li>not done</li>" + result2;
}
Jan 14, 2011 21:45
Thanks Anders for your input. However, I want a permanent solution that I can run as an SQL scheduled task regularly that removes everything older than a number of days. And it should preferably use EPiServers own stored procs for deletion so that I am sure all EPiServer tables are cleaned up in the correct way. It seems my second script works partly but I think something is missing in it but as I do not know the EPiServer database structure in detail, it is hard to know exactly what to do.
Jan 17, 2011 8:30
We had to make the code above a schedule task since we got an timeout from the normal sched task, and that rollacked alle the deleted items. The above code do delete pages correctly, but only one at the time.
Jan 17, 2011 9:02
Currently we have 12000 pages (most of them very old) in our recycle bin and we have since long back activated the "Automatic emptying of recycle bin" but it does not remove any pages (it has long time back removed a few pages). I also tried to run it manually with same negative result. When starting it, it finishes immediately with no error. We had the same problem in EPiServer 4.62 and used the following script as a workaround:
exec sp_debugtree
GO
declare @DeletePageID int
while(1=1)
begin
select top 1 @DeletePageID=pkID
from tblPage
where (fkparentID = 2) -- modify this where-statement...
and Saved< dateadd(day,-7,getdate())
if (@@ROWCOUNT = 0)
break
exec editDeletePage @DeletePageID, 1
end
We would like to use a similar script for CSM 5 and I thougth I had got it right but it seems like the pages are not fully deleted when using my modified script. Pages sometimes remain in recycle bin but they can not be viewed and they cannot be searched so the database seems to have come into an inconsistent state. This is the script I have been trying in CMS 5:
declare @DeletePageID int
while(1=1)
begin
select top 1 @DeletePageID=P.pkID
from tblPage P, tblWorkPage W
where (P.fkparentID = 2) -- modify this where-statement...
and P.pkID = W.fkPageID
and W.Saved< dateadd(day,-7,getdate())
if (@@ROWCOUNT = 0)
break
exec editDeletePage @DeletePageID, 1
end
Does enyone have a solution to the empty recycle bin problem in CMS 5?