Re: Assistant to remove unused IDs of org-id

[Marc Ihm <marc@ihm.name>]

Hi Ihor,
Thanx ! Fixed it.
Details: I am now checking
(string= (org-attach-dir-from-id id) (org--attach-dir))
to see if the ID is used in the attachment dir (if it exists).
Background: I do not use attachments myself;
did not remember, they use IDs :-/
Best regards,
Marc

Am 14.04.2020 um 05:02 schrieb Ihor Radchenko:
> I quickly looked through the code. It seems that you do not consider
> attachments, which are normally stored in a folder named after the
> entry's ID property. Deleting those ID is terrible idea.
> 
> Best,
> Ihor
> 
> 
> Marc-Oliver Ihm <marc@ihm.name> writes:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> as I use the excellent package org-id in a somewhat non-standard way, I tend to produce IDs, that are not referenced from anywhere. Org-id handles this great and does not suffer in performance, but eventually I want to remove those unreferenced IDs.
>> Therefore I have written a small interactive assistant:
>>
>> https://github.com/marcIhm/org-working-set/blob/master/org-id-cleanup.el
>>
>> to help with removing those IDs.
>> The assistant (interactive function: org-id-cleanup) is quite detailed with its instructions and checks, so that the risk of doing harm ist reduced to a minimum, although not to zero (therefore the first step is to ask for a backup).
>>
>> In any case I wonder, if this functionality (removing unreferenced IDs) could be helpful for anyone else.
>>
>> So please feel free to have a look.
>> Finally I would be grateful for any comment whatsoever
>> (e.g. regarding the name of org-id-cleanup.el).
>>
>> Best regards
>> Marc
>>
>