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Re: Assistant to remove unused IDs of org-id
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Ihor Radchenko |
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Re: Assistant to remove unused IDs of org-id |
Date: |
Tue, 14 Apr 2020 11:02:31 +0800 |
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 <address@hidden> 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
>
--
Ihor Radchenko,
PhD,
Center for Advancing Materials Performance from the Nanoscale (CAMP-nano)
State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Xi'an Jiaotong
University, Xi'an, China
Email: address@hidden, address@hidden