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Allow deletion of B2D files from BEWS UI

Created: 20 Jul 2009 | 3 comments
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I'd like to be able to delete B2D files from the BEWS Devices window. Currently it requires multiple operations in BEWS and Explorer or the Command Line. Ideally, I'd right-click one or more B2D Media and click Delete and delete it from both.

Doesn't come up very often, but when it does, the process is tedious and error-prone.

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Stas Krasovsky's picture
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2009
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All you have to do is select

All you have to do is select the ones you want to delete and move them to the retired group then the option to delete is available. Its a 2 step process but its better than accidently deleting your entire library by accident. 

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2009
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That deletes them from the

That deletes them from the BEWS catalog, but it does not delete the B2D or IMG files/folders from the disk. Those are the 2 steps (BEWS, then Explorer or CMD shell) that I'm referring to. I don't have a problem with having to move it to Retired Media first.

What makes it error prone is that (a) I have to remember to go back and delete it manually or the disk space is never reclaimed and (b) if I have fat fingers and delete the wrong file or folder (and all those sequentially numbered media start looking a lot alike), I render data unrestorable. And until I inventory the device in BEWS, BEWS and I believe the data still exists.

So, what I'm hoping will be added to BEWS is that when I delete the media from the Retired Media Set that BEWS then offers to delete the corresponding B2D/IMG file/folder from the file system. Further, the default should be to delete the file system object, because I'd have to believe that the situation where you want restorable data to exist in the file system but don't want BEWS to know about it is exceedingly rare. So rare that we might not even need the option at all...maybe it should just do it.

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2009
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Ah yes you are right I delete

Ah yes you are right I delete so infrequently I forgot about the manual file deletion. It should be the same functionality as Windows Media Player. You click delete on a song and it asks "Do you want to delete from the library only or from the library and physical file"