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Delete Unused Locations Unexpectedly Performs Global Changes
I was on the map-data page for my "New York" location and recently changed some tree data so that there were 2 places no longer in use.
When I clicked the Delete Unused Locations button, webtrees purged 67 locations from my database. 😱
Some possible ways to improve this:
- Make changes context-sensitive.
- Make changes undoable.
- Add AYS
When I clicked the Delete Unused Locations button, webtrees purged 67 locations from my database.
Perhaps these were all unused. Perhaps your change ("New York" => "New York State"), caused lots of child places to become unused?
You didn't say "webtrees deleted a place that was in use", so I'm not sure what error you are reporting.
Add AYS
AYS?
Perhaps these were all unused. Perhaps your change ("New York" => "New York State"), caused lots of child places to become unused?
Yes they were all unused. No, it was not caused by the local change. It performed a global purge of all unused locations in the database. Simply unexpected behavior of the delete button on the New York page.
Add AYS
AYS?
"Are you sure" prompt is one way to avoid unexpected results.
I see it's still labeled 'cannot reproduce'. I'm not willing to test this again on my production site, so I would need to set up a 2nd instance for testing this bug. Give me a couple more weeks to take care of that.