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From: Marc Ihm <marc@ihm.name>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Assistant to remove unused IDs of org-id
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2020 22:50:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cb82648a-ceab-2476-77b6-e13ab4d635d8@ihm.name> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y2qyu5vc.fsf@localhost>

Hi Ihor,
Thanx ! Fixed it.
Details: I am now checking
(string= (org-attach-dir-from-id id) (org--attach-dir))
to see if the ID is used in the attachment dir (if it exists).
Background: I do not use attachments myself;
did not remember, they use IDs :-/
Best regards,
Marc

Am 14.04.2020 um 05:02 schrieb Ihor Radchenko:
> I quickly looked through the code. It seems that you do not consider
> attachments, which are normally stored in a folder named after the
> entry's ID property. Deleting those ID is terrible idea.
> 
> Best,
> Ihor
> 
> 
> Marc-Oliver Ihm <marc@ihm.name> writes:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> as I use the excellent package org-id in a somewhat non-standard way, I tend to produce IDs, that are not referenced from anywhere. Org-id handles this great and does not suffer in performance, but eventually I want to remove those unreferenced IDs.
>> Therefore I have written a small interactive assistant:
>>
>> https://github.com/marcIhm/org-working-set/blob/master/org-id-cleanup.el
>>
>> to help with removing those IDs.
>> The assistant (interactive function: org-id-cleanup) is quite detailed with its instructions and checks, so that the risk of doing harm ist reduced to a minimum, although not to zero (therefore the first step is to ask for a backup).
>>
>> In any case I wonder, if this functionality (removing unreferenced IDs) could be helpful for anyone else.
>>
>> So please feel free to have a look.
>> Finally I would be grateful for any comment whatsoever
>> (e.g. regarding the name of org-id-cleanup.el).
>>
>> Best regards
>> Marc
>>
> 




  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-14 20:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-13 16:45 Assistant to remove unused IDs of org-id Marc-Oliver Ihm
2020-04-13 20:04 ` Adam Porter
2020-04-14 20:55   ` Marc Ihm
2020-04-14  3:02 ` Ihor Radchenko
2020-04-14 20:50   ` Marc Ihm [this message]
2020-05-22 15:21 ` Bastien

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