SID-01043: Moving .txt files on command line

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	4.2.4	Perl version:	5.8.8
Category:	CategoryDeployment	Server OS:	FreeBSD 5.4 Release	Last update:	15 years ago

Hi,

We want to reorganize and consolidate a few webs on our TWiki deployment. We've used naming conventions and can use those naming conventions with wildcards/regex to move deprecated topics to the Trash web en masse (via the command line), expediting the reorganization.

The trouble is that we don't know what to expect if we do this (besides a few broken links).

Is there any reason we would not be able to/should not move topics between webs and subsequently remove webs via the command line? If we can do this without any consequence we can greatly reduce the time required to complete the reorganization.

Thanks!

Justin

-- JustinSchaefer - 2010-11-29

Discussion and Answer

You can safely move topics between webs on the command line. For topic FooBar in Eng web, move twiki/data/Eng/FooBar.txt*. If there are attachments on that topic, move also the twiki/pub/Eng/FooBar/ directory. Some plugins might store data in the work area. For example, the TagMePlugin stores tagging data in the twiki/working/work_areas/TagMePlugin/ directory.

Other than that you are safe.

-- PeterThoeny - 2011-01-04

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