catalog problem - removing category leaves scripts

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rur54
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catalog problem - removing category leaves scripts

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Hi, not sure if this bug or intended.
I have a 300KB catalog and after I delete all "categories" with scripts (not scripts individually) and leave only a few, I assume it would remove all scripts as well from those categories but it looks like all those are left but now invisible.
After I save catalog it is same size (300 KB) as if I did not remove any scripts. Opening it in text editor I see all scripts I removed still there.

The only way to get rid of removed scripts is if I just export categories I need one by one, create new catalog and import those back.
Then new catalog is about 20KB afterwards as original catalog should be after deleting categories and saving catalog.

Is this a bug or is there something in setting I missed that keeps old scripts in catalog after "category" delete?
Cheers

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Re: catalog problem - removing category leaves scripts

Post by admin »

This is just the way the catalog is built internally. For performance reasons items are marked "invisible" rather than erased. They will be overwritten once you add new items. It's actually pretty much like a file system works.

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Re: catalog problem - removing category leaves scripts

Post by rur54 »

thank you.

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