[Moin-user] Empty directories

[Rick Vanderveer]

Errr... the bug I'm thinking of was back from an early 1.8 or earlier
release a few years ago.  Sorry about that!

-Rick


On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Kai Jaeger <kai at aplteam.com> wrote:

> Hello Rick,
>
> Thanks for your advice.
>
> Getting rid of the stuff was not a problem once I was aware of it.
>
> I am on 1.9.3 which is not exactly old! Was this really fixed in 1.9.4?
>
>
> Kai
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 4:16 PM, Rick Vanderveer
> <rick.vanderveer at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hey Kai,
> >
> > First step:
> > I seem to recall that this was a bug in an old version of Moin, that a
> > folder structure would begin to be created before the user authenticated.
> > All of us got hit with that bug, but it was quickly fixed as I recall.
> So,
> > your first step should be to upgrade your Moin!
> >
> > Second step is clean-up:
> > I can't remember (I think there might've been) a clean-up script within
> Moin
> > that helped clean up those folders (maint cleanpage?  Better wait until
> > someone else weighs in on that).  Outside of Moin, there are simple
> scripts
> > you can do (just make sure to back up your data dir *first*, then restart
> > moin after running the script).  On linux:
> >
> > find /path/to/dir -empty -delete
> >
> > On Windows, there is a utility you can download:
> > http://simonwai.com/developments/empty_folder_nuker/
> >
> > -Rick
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 7:04 AM, Kai Jaeger <kai at aplteam.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Recently I noticed that clicking on a Category page took much longer
> >> than it should: roughly 30-40 seconds.
> >>
> >> I checked the directory structure and found 18,000 empty folders!
> >>
> >> Because of the spammers one cannot create a page in the wiki in
> >> question without answering a stupid question. That works well but when
> >> somebody requests a page that does not exist yet than a new folder is
> >> created despite the user getting the message "You are not allowed to
> >> edit this page". And because they are doing this via a program I end
> >> up very soon with thousands of empty folders.
> >>
> >> Is there anything that can be done to improve this?
> >>
> >>
> >> Kai
> >>
> >>
> >>
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