I have just migrated a site back to my development desktop box from another host. I have everything setup how it was except I cannot actually delete any content or empty my recycle bin. I can create pages and it appears in my menu (thus xslt is working fine) and I can edit CSS and this reflects on the site. But I cannot delete any content to the recycle bin or empty the recycle bin itself - it just stays on the "please do not close this window while this operation takes place".
I have checked my permissions and I have applied full access control to ASPNET on all the appropriate folders and I can't seem to figure out where the problems lays. It is umbraco 4 hosted on IIS5.
Does changes to pages reflect to the front end? Can you publish new pages?
If not, try deleting umbraco.config see if that helps. Even though the symtoms are not typical I still supsect this might be a permission issue. I experienced and read several examples of strange behaviour after migrating, that seems to have to do with the umbraco.config file not being updated when working in the back end, even though the permissions seems OK on fodler level.
The changes do reflect in the front end and I can create new pages - just deleting them is a problem. But I've discovered that its like this on the old server I migrated from - I just never noticed because it was only on the server to be looked at - no one actually tested it at any point - so I think what has happened is that it has corrupted when I initially moved from dev to live - and now im bringing it back to dev - the corruption has followed through.
Is this a site that was upgraded from an earlier version of Umbraco?
What if you try to empty the recycle bin a few times in a row (pay no attention to the message, just close the window). That worked for me on a site that had the same behaviour.
No it wasn't an uprade it was a clean install of umbraco 4 - and the multiple tries of emptying the recycle bin hasnt made a difference Is there a chance theres maybe a missing file or script as opposed to permissions? Whats the best way to go about checking?
Problem with deleting content/emptying recycle bin after migration
Hi,
I have just migrated a site back to my development desktop box from another host. I have everything setup how it was except I cannot actually delete any content or empty my recycle bin. I can create pages and it appears in my menu (thus xslt is working fine) and I can edit CSS and this reflects on the site. But I cannot delete any content to the recycle bin or empty the recycle bin itself - it just stays on the "please do not close this window while this operation takes place".
I have checked my permissions and I have applied full access control to ASPNET on all the appropriate folders and I can't seem to figure out where the problems lays. It is umbraco 4 hosted on IIS5.
Any help would be great, cheers, Garry.
Does changes to pages reflect to the front end? Can you publish new pages?
If not, try deleting umbraco.config see if that helps. Even though the symtoms are not typical I still supsect this might be a permission issue. I experienced and read several examples of strange behaviour after migrating, that seems to have to do with the umbraco.config file not being updated when working in the back end, even though the permissions seems OK on fodler level.
It might be worth a try at least.
The changes do reflect in the front end and I can create new pages - just deleting them is a problem. But I've discovered that its like this on the old server I migrated from - I just never noticed because it was only on the server to be looked at - no one actually tested it at any point - so I think what has happened is that it has corrupted when I initially moved from dev to live - and now im bringing it back to dev - the corruption has followed through.
Garry,
Is this a site that was upgraded from an earlier version of Umbraco?
What if you try to empty the recycle bin a few times in a row (pay no attention to the message, just close the window). That worked for me on a site that had the same behaviour.
Peter
Hi Peter,
No it wasn't an uprade it was a clean install of umbraco 4 - and the multiple tries of emptying the recycle bin hasnt made a difference Is there a chance theres maybe a missing file or script as opposed to permissions? Whats the best way to go about checking?
Check the umbracoLog-table in the DB. It can hold usefull information about what goes wrong.
I had a similar problem. I was able to empty the recycle bin by removing orphan nodes. See my blog for details: blog.degree.no/.../
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