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Deleting over 1000 nodes

buje85

Hi,

How are people deleting a large number of nodes from the repository that are stored based on metadata and not all stored under one root folder?

For example I have 60,000 files that need removing. If I use the javascript console I can search and find 1000 nodes based on some metadata properties then delete the nodes but I would have to run this script 60 times. As an administrator I must be missing an easier way to do this.

I couldn't find a repository forum so I hope this is the correct one.

Thanks,

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douglascrp

I think this presentation can give you some ideas:
https://summit.alfresco.com/san-francisco/sessions/advanced-repository-administration-javascript

Search for the topic "How to Process Lots of Nodes"

buje85

Thanks, that is really useful!

aowian

Increasing the number of nodes to get from a query can only help you find the nodes.

Plus, processing a lot of nodes in one transaction can kill the Alfresco application by eating up all the resources. Believe me. I tried it.

Also, there is still a 1000 node limit on a writable transaction, unless that can be overridden.

I tried wrapping the transaction as shown in Bindu's Summit presentation and putting that in a loop,

but I ended up getting the same nodes each execution of the loop.

Finally this worked:

From the Javascript Console, choose Script execution parameters,

and for Run like crazy: choose continuously 10s delay.

This allows Alfresco to throttle the processing so as to not overload the server,

and it batches the runs committing each transaction after processing 1000 nodes.

mevlutozdemir

Hi,

The link in your comment is not working anymore.

Is the link to the script still available? If yes were can I find it (could not find it myself)

Thanks,