[Zope] uncatalog of absent id?

[Bill Anderson]

"R. David Murray" wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Nitesh Dhanjani wrote:
> > Im fairly new to the Zope world. Im trying to delete a PTK folder, and get
> > this error:
> >
> >   Zope Error
> > Zope has encountered an error while publishing this resource.
> >
> > Error Type: ValueError
> > Error Value: Uncatalog of absent id '/icds/Members/bob/index_html'
> 
> This means you are trying to delete a CatalogAware object that was
> not entered into the catalog.  (Some have argued that this is a
> but, some a feature).  To get around it, you can probably just
> call the URL
> 
> /icds/Members/bob/index_html/index_object
> 
> and then do the delete.


If that fails:
http://www.zope.org/Members/Bill/Documentation/CatalogBadness

You could also delete the Catalog, delete the Item, and Undo the Catalog
Deletion. This has worked well for me in the past.

YMMV

Bill

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