Feature Request: Empty Archive

[therampagerado]

Recently I've increased our virtualbox resources to 3 gb and 6 cores of our server CPU but the load when node is updating something somewhere is making the app unresponsive. It simply does not 'click'.

Will deleting old items from the recycle bin reduce the load?

I have 12 users and around 10-12 cards per day on average. Of course most of them are in the recycle bin but running the app from January I would imagine we have around 1200-1400 cards in our bin now. Of course loading it takes forever but this is normal.

What can I do to speed the app up? (other than adding gazzilion ram and moving the virtual box to new server with 4 CPUs...) :D

[xet7]

@therampagerado

Try cleanup scripts:
https://github.com/wekan/wekan-cleanup

[therampagerado]

Can something similar be implemented in admin section@

[udvarit]

Forget the "older than" condition, I'd be really happy with a simple "Delete everything from the recycle bin" button.

[therampagerado]

We (our company) will definitely need 'delete older than.... days' option because we sometimes need to go back and check or replicate an old order.

But fixed option will be fine for us...

• older than 30 days
• older than 3 months (the perfect scenario for us)
• older than 6 months
• older than 365 days..

etc...

[therampagerado]

Today I deleted ~300 cards but the used space of the system didn't reduce. I read that mongodb does not clear the space for the files that are no longer there until we repair the db.

How to do that? And firstly - when I delete items from my recycle bin will they delete everything after them effectively freeing up space? Files, options on the cards, etc.

[feuerball11]

I'm looking into deleting things from the recycling bin the days.

[therampagerado]

@feuerball11 what do you plan here?

[feuerball11]

I Havent looked into this deeply jet, Mostly becouse my Company wants a Presentation Tomorrow, and i'm looking at bugs for CustomFields fist, now.
But i have something in mind like Deleting single Boards / Cards, and also Deleting the content from the Complete Recycling bin.

Originaly i only wanted to do so for Boards, but i last saw that there is a racycling bin also for Cards and Lists. (Also cards have already a delete Option)

So i guess i add a Delete option for lists, and look at deleting Cards, if there is something what needs to be done, to remove them finaly from the Database.

In worst case i'll look at a Admin option for Cleaning the Database.

[feuerball11]

Timelines moved, and i have no time to do this. Sry. I want to concentrate on Custom Fields and Advanced Filters

[udvarit]

I'm sad to hear that the feature got postponed. In the meantime, I whipped up a PHP script that deletes archived lists, archived cards, all associated data, and all activities from a Wekan export json file. My Wekan grain is a tenth of its size after the Export -> Filter -> Import cycle!
I uploaded the script in case anyone's interested: https://gist.github.com/udvarit/e5927b8ceb2220db8d7113ee96618e71
EDIT: Please don't try this with a Sandstorm installation, #1430 is still not fixed.

[xet7]

@udvarit

Thanks! I added it to wekan cleanup repo wiki:
https://github.com/wekan/wekan-cleanup/wiki/Empty-Recycle-Bin-from-exported-JSON-with-PHP

[d3dbit]

@udvarit ,
Thanks for your PHP script.
But could you explain to us how to use it?
Could you explain it in the wekan cleanup repo wiki?

@xet7, thanks to upload the script to the wiki.

[udvarit]

@d3dbit
Thank you very much for expressing interest for my script. I just learned that I can't make a pull request to update the wiki, so I created a gist with the instructions: https://gist.github.com/udvarit/ff21d84994678d9d3757299b44fd1237

[xet7]

Recycle Bin has now been renamed to Archive.