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Conference iosg::all-in-1

Title:	ALL-IN-1 (tm) Support Conference
Notice:	Please spell ALL-IN-1 correctly - all CAPITALS!
Moderator:	IOSG::PYECE

Created:	Fri Jul 01 1994
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	2716
Total number of notes:	12169

2697.0. "Deletion of empty folders in TeamLinks?" by COPCLU::ELIN (Elin Christensen @DMO, DTN 857-2406) Tue May 27 1997 19:36

    I have asked this in the TeamLinks conference.
    Maybe ALL-IN-1 people can answer me??
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Note 2219.0                Deletion of empty folders?                 No replies
COPCLU::ELIN "Elin Christensen @DMO, DTN 857-2406"   19 lines  26-MAY-1997 09:16
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    ALL-IN-1 v3.2 and TeamLinks v2.7
    
    When do ALL-IN-1 folders get deleted in TeamLinks?
    
    
    If I work in ALL-IN-1 and delete the last document in a folder, the
    folder gets deleted as well, but in TeamLinks the folders stay there.
    
    A customer reports that some times empty folders disappear from
    TeamLinks, and it seems as if some housekeeping jobs delete
    empty folders.
    He would like to know in which cases ALL-IN-1 folders get deleted from
    TeamLinks so that he can explain it to his users.
    
    Do mail folders and other folders get deleted after the same rules?
    
    
    Elin

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2697.1 WOTVAX::oloras6.olo.dec.com::swat01::bell Martin Bell @BBP Tue May 27 1997 20:21 21

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2697.1		WOTVAX::oloras6.olo.dec.com::swat01::bell	Martin Bell @BBP	`Tue May 27 1997 20:21`	21
	Elin, in ALL-IN-1 there is (currently) no such thing as an empty folder. The folder name is simply part of a key to uniquely identify a document (the docnum being the other part of the key (ish)). Because ALL-IN-1 can't represent empty folders, some the the PC style point-and-click operations would not work so neatly, so TeamLinks maintains a pointer to an "empty" folder in memory (not on the ALL-IN-1 server), to make things look more natural! If you exit TeamLinks (or maybe also if you disconnect from your file cabinet) the "memory pointer" disappears, and thus any reference to this empty folder also does away. So empty folders only exist in the PCs memory, and never appear on the ALL-IN-1 server. Cheers, mb

Elin,

in ALL-IN-1 there is (currently) no such thing as an empty folder.
The folder name is simply part of a key to uniquely identify a
document (the docnum being the other part of the key (ish)).

Because ALL-IN-1 can't represent empty folders, some the the PC
style point-and-click operations would not work so neatly, so
TeamLinks maintains a pointer to an "empty" folder in memory
(not on the ALL-IN-1 server), to make things look more natural!

If you exit TeamLinks (or maybe also if you disconnect from your
file cabinet) the "memory pointer" disappears, and thus any reference
to this empty folder also does away.

So empty folders only exist in the PCs memory, and never appear
on the ALL-IN-1 server.

Cheers,

mb