topic Re: How to bulk delete in Alfresco Archive

How to bulk delete

dk_user — Wed, 22 May 2013 10:11:08 GMT

Hi,I am very new Alfresco user. We have uploaded 18000 documents to Alfresco. Then we noticed that some categories are not correct. We would like to upload them again, but we don't know how to delete existing documents. Is there any way to delete all documents that were uploaded yesterday?Thanks,Lod

Re: How to bulk delete

marcus_svensson — Thu, 23 May 2013 09:30:13 GMT

The easiest way would be to just remove the parent folder (if there is just one or a few) using the Alfresco Explorer client and skip archiving.

I've noticed in some cases that Alfresco Share is not very good at deleting a large number of documents at one time (it times out after a while).

If you can't just remove a parent folder, then I'd say you have two options:
1. Restore a backup
2. Create a script in JavaScript or Java which executes a search for documents created for a certain date, and then delete them. Here it might be wise to split up the operation into several transactions which commit every now and then to not run into transaction cache problems. To speed things up, you might want to look into disabling Solr while and then enable it again after the delete operation is done.

Re: How to bulk delete

zladuric — Sat, 25 May 2013 21:21:55 GMT

Also a good thing to do - if you're taking a custom javascript or java script - is to add the aspect "sys:temporary" on the file before deleting it. That will also skip the archive.

Re: How to bulk delete

gluck113 — Tue, 17 Apr 2018 07:04:03 GMT

For people who are asking themselves the same question, there is a github project :

GitHub - fsforna/MassiveDelete: A simple Alfresco massive deletion batch

from francesco fornasari and Christian Tiralosi.

You "just" need to extract the document ID you want to delete (CMIS/DB queries), and put it into a csv.