Buttons of mass destruction?

luke_church · September 8, 2005

Hi guys,

What's the best way of deleting *a lot* of galleries? Is there a 'destroy all categories, albums, etc. data associated with account' functionality?

I know from a quick search that there isn't a bulk delete function, is there any kind of 'delete all' functionality?

OK, probably wishfull thinking, prize idiot here has just created a lot of galleries in the wrong place, to the extent that blasting the site would be quicker, and easier on the hands than deleting them manually...

Is the API the way to go? :uhoh Or does someone know a better/easier way?

Cheers,

Luke

Andy · September 8, 2005

luke_church wrote:

Hi guys,

What's the best way of deleting *a lot* of galleries? Is there a 'destroy all categories, albums, etc. data associated with account' functionality?

I know from a quick search that there isn't a bulk delete function, is there any kind of 'delete all' functionality?

OK, probably wishfull thinking, prize idiot here has just created a lot of galleries in the wrong place, to the extent that blasting the site would be quicker, and easier on the hands than deleting them manually...

Is the API the way to go? :uhoh Or does someone know a better/easier way?

Cheers,

Luke

i'm not positive (being a mac user - ahem, nik - koff koff koff) but i think star*explorer may allow this?

luke_church · September 8, 2005

andy wrote:

i'm not positive (being a mac user - ahem, nik - koff koff koff) but i think star*explorer may allow this?

Hi Andy,

Thanks for the idea... It doesn't obviously have delete functionality, and bizzarely doesn't seem to display by 170 galleries with no photos in them...

(I accidentally created them all in 'Food'... I wonder if someone is trying to tell me something)

Cheers anyhow,

Luke

DodgeV83 · September 9, 2005

hahaha, I asked for this a few weeks ago...I had to delete 300+ galleries manually...I just did at 50 a day, more if I had time, and got it done in under a week...:cry

luke_church wrote:

Hi Andy,

Thanks for the idea... It doesn't obviously have delete functionality, and bizzarely doesn't seem to display by 170 galleries with no photos in them...

(I accidentally created them all in 'Food'... I wonder if someone is trying to tell me something)

Cheers anyhow,

Luke

Nikolai · September 9, 2005

No, sorry..

andy wrote:

i'm not positive (being a mac user - ahem, nik - koff koff koff) but i think star*explorer may allow this?

I didn't get to "delete" part yet..

I will some time soon, though..:):
Keep the faith!

Cheers!

devbobo · September 9, 2005

Luke,

I have delete functionality on single album level for my firefox extension. it shouldn't be too difficult to mod this to delete all albums in a given category or sub category.

let me know.

David

luke_church · September 10, 2005

devbobo wrote:

Luke,

let me know.

Thanks David,

I'll probably just hack something together...

I'm going to have to, to get the unit testing engine working properly anyhow.

I've now registed another account, so I don't have to do testing on my main photo storage one..... A litlle overdue perhaps!

Cheers,

Luke

DrDavid · December 28, 2007

Sorry to dredge up an old thread.. But, I'd LOVE to see SmugBrowser with the ability to delete an entire hierarchy of folders, etc.. Of course, some sort of 'Are you absolutely sure?' warning buzzer should go off to avoid a very large OOPS, but.. Otherwise, it would be fantastic! (or, Nik - care to add the feature to S*E?)

hobbes · January 13, 2008

I too would love to have the ability to nuke an entire gallery and it's sub galleries.

Another option if that isn't workable is I would like to rename a category to something like junk (or something that smugmug would recognize) and when it gets sent to that the whole works gets set to private so at least it can't be seen by clients.

Thanks

hobbes · September 23, 2008

Any word on this yet? I've got hundreds of galleries that could be taken down if this was available.

Thanks

mike.strock · September 23, 2008

hobbes wrote:

Any word on this yet? I've got hundreds of galleries that could be taken down if this was available.

Thanks

I know this is probably necessary functionality, and people need this to happen.

But I would caution anyone who does implement this, it is opening a potentially disastrous ending.

I for one would be scared to death to implement something like this and then have someone comeback and say "Well, I used it, but I goofed, even though it asked me 11 times if I was really sure I wanted to delete all my galleries. Can I get a restore done?"

maybe that's just the software guy in me being paranoid.

Mike.

hobbes · September 24, 2008

Well, the delete function could have an "Are you sure?" response first so you can't just accidently hit one button and nuke your photos. But I think this is a very necessary thing to have. I bet it would save Smugmug a mountain of server space as well.

mike.strock · September 24, 2008

hobbes wrote:

Well, the delete function could have an "Are you sure?" response first so you can't just accidently hit one button and nuke your photos. But I think this is a very necessary thing to have. I bet it would save Smugmug a mountain of server space as well.

I understand. Understand from my perspective as well, coming from the software side of things, my day job company has a product that has a couple functions where you are asked "Are you sure?" TWICE and people STILL DON'T READ THE DIALOG and screw themselves up numerous times.

If someone can screw up, they will.

Mike.

richpepp · September 24, 2008

mike.strock wrote:

people STILL DON'T READ THE DIALOG and screw themselves up numerous times.

He He - I'm with Mike on this one, no one reads those dialogs any more. What I have used before is to make people type 'I am really, really sure' before the action but I KNOW that it will still go wrong some time....

Rich

Andy · September 24, 2008

hobbes wrote:

Any word on this yet? I've got hundreds of galleries that could be taken down if this was available.

Thanks

SmugBrowser, the Firefox addon is the easiest way.

hobbes · September 24, 2008

Thanks, I'll have a look at that now.

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