SID-01403: Revision Deletion

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	5.1.0	Perl version:	5.x
Category:	CategoryEditing	Server OS:	Debian	Last update:	14 years ago

Is there a simple way of deleting all revisions to a topic except for the latest on?

-- DavidSteininger - 2012-02-13

Discussion and Answer

There is no easy/automated way to do that. Here are the steps:

1. Do a raw view on the topic & copy all content into the clipboard
2. Delete the topic
3. Create the topic again, raw edit & paste
4. Restore attachments in case there were

TWiki is open source software. If you re a developer I invite you to get involved, post a feature proposal and implement a "purge all but top revisions" feature. You could also hire a TWiki consultant to do that for you.

-- PeterThoeny - 2012-02-13

It worked. Thank you. I have been toying with the idea to hire a consultant. I think I would like to get a little bit better at TWiki myself through self learning before going to a consultant. I feel I need to know a modicum of stuff before I go to a consultant to do my TWiki work. But thanks for the suggestion.

-- DavidSteininger - 2012-02-15

Is there a way of deleting all of the files in Recent Changes in Main Web (WebChanges topic)? I could go to the files in twiki/Data/Main and delete files but I may delete one that is nedcessary for the correct operation of twiki. Is there options in twiki to allow sending all these old changes and logs to the trash? I can't find it in documentation if there is one. I need to eliminate these changes before I go live on the Web with my twiki.

-- DavidSteininger - 2012-02-21

Some pages in the Main web are essential: System pages such as TWikiUsers and UserList, as well as user profile pages. Whenever a new user registers you will see the link of the user's profile page in the recent changes list. If you do not like to show that in the homepage, simply remove the INCLUDE of the WebChangesRightBox.

-- PeterThoeny - 2012-02-23

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