[Archivesspace_Users_Group] How to delete a populated repository?

[Chris Fitzpatrick]

Hi Mark,

I wrote this script last summer to do this:

https://gist.github.com/cfitz/4fefcfa659ef18bfbe6c

It's ruby and you'll have to have a rest_client and highline gems installed...

Does that work for you? 

b,chris. 


Chris Fitzpatrick | Developer, ArchivesSpace
Skype: chrisfitzpat  | Phone: 918.236.6048
http://archivesspace.org/

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Subject: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] How to delete a populated repository?

All,

Does anyone know how to delete a populated repository?  (We
inadvertently clicked the wrong thing while performing a migration which
set in stone our previously-pushed-through erroneous recordset.)

I tried to Delete, but it won't delete a repository if it is populated.
I tried to simply move that repository, transferring its content into a
dummy repository for the time being.  No joy.  ("There was an error")
I reran the ./scripts/setup-database.sh script hoping it might drop each
table before recreating/reinitializing.  No joy.
I attempted to Drop tables individually but can't because of foreign key
constraints.

The only other thing I can think to do is to drop, then recreate, the
whole DB schema in MySQL (which, insofar as I don't have root access
there, I can't do).

I kind of expected the Delete button would delete the repository --
including all its content -- and not leave behind any orphans in the
backend database?

How can I delete this pesky repository?!

Advice much appreciated,

Mark

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Mark Cyzyk, M.A., M.L.S.
Scholarly Communication Architect
User Interface Applications Group
The Sheridan Libraries
The Johns Hopkins University
mcyzyk at jhu.edu

Verba volant, scripta manent.


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