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#1 2014-02-25 19:52:17

Gilly
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2014-02-25
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I want to delete all files and folders

Greetings good people of the internet,

I am using FTP to upload so have physical albums.

I am very inexperienced with computers generally but I have 35,000 images in over 600 sub-folders so ftp was the only way to go.

Basically, I'm muddling my way through and have managed to get my files and folders uploaded and in the correct order! Yay!

BUT I've messed up quite a few times and have floating images and folders repeated and unconnected to anything. I'm sure there are ways to fix this but I'd like to start from scratch now I understand the process a little better.

How do I delete everything cleanly? I thought I would rename the photograph folder, sync it and that it would delete them all because there was nothing there. Didn't seem to work though.

Any tips? Sorry its such a simple problem. I am a simple man.

Cheers.



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#2 2014-02-25 21:37:42

flop25
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Re: I want to delete all files and folders

Hello
have you tried to delete everything in /galleries and sync?


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#3 2014-02-26 17:56:54

Gilly
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2014-02-25
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Re: I want to delete all files and folders

Hi, thanks for the reply.

I've not tried removing everything yet, just renaming.


Because there are so many files and the ftp process takes several days, is there a way of deleting them from piwigo which doesn't involve deleting the files from the structure?

Could I move them to a different part of the folder structure quickly?

If not, I will delete and start again.

Sorry, I'm quite embarrassed to know so little but I'm learning fast!


Many thanks,

Gilly

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#4 2014-02-26 18:01:57

mistic100
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Lyon (FR)
2008-09-27
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Re: I want to delete all files and folders

I really don't understand the problem

just rename "galleries" in something else and create a new "galleries" folder

(don't even try to move files by drag-and-drop, there is no "move" in FTP, only "rename", and clients emulate move by download, delete, upload)

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#5 2014-02-26 19:16:59

Gilly
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2014-02-25
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Re: I want to delete all files and folders

You did understand the problem, that's the advice I was looking for.

Thanks a lot guys.


Cheers,

Gilly

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