Question

If you try to delete an attachment that already exists in TrashAttachment, you will be given an error. Is there a way to get round this without manually moving/deleting the attachment in TrashAttachment? Should there be?

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Answer

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This is currently a limitation of TWiki. You need to move the previous attachment away, or delete the attachment to Trash.WebHome instead.

To clean up the attachments in Trash.TrashAttachment you can do one of this:

• Rename Trash.TrashAttachment to Trash.TrashAttachment123, and recreate an empty Trash.TrashAttachment.
• From the shell, delete data/Trash/TrashAttachment.txt* and pub/Trash/TrashAttachment/*, then create an empty Trash.TrashAttachment topic.

-- PeterThoeny - 16 Dec 2006

Yes, with emphasis, there should be a better way. This issue is bringing us around 2-4 user complaints that we have to deal with per week. If the attachment already exists in the trash, TWiki really needs to A) blow away the old deleted attachment or B) rename the old attachment -- just like the Trash in OS X, Windows, etc. do."

Evan Goer via Robert

-- RobertMiller - 14 Mar 2007

See ImproveAttachmentToTrashFlow request.

-- ArthurClemens - 14 Mar 2007

And Bugs:Item5384

-- MartinCleaver - 22 Feb 2008