Re: Why don't my carts expire

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1998


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 17925
interpreted = N
texte = >Date: 25 May 1998 00:02:53 >From: Steve Rosenbaum >Subject: Why don't my carts expire > > >How do I get my carts to expire? They seem to stay in my shopping carts >folder(s) forever. >I can't seem to find the appropriate documentation or setting.I had a similar problem - my carts were building up in the carts folder. I recalled that there was a pref setting for sweeping carts but the template for prefs that came with 2.1.3 didn't allow me to set or check this. So, I opened my prefs in a text editor and found the sweepcart entry which was set to 24. This seemed correct, but my cart folder was filled with a months worth of carts (1000's of files!!!). I was confused. I looked at the prefs file from a clean install of 2.1.3 (when installing 2.1.3 I had kept my old prefs). Beleive it or not the two sets of prefs were significantly different - not just the settings but the pref fields themselves. In the new set of prefs there was no mention of sweepcart frequency. So I put the new (clean install) pref file in my WebCat folder on my production server and restarted WebCat. After a few minutes carts older than 24 hours disappeared. (Of course I then had to scramble to update the security, emailer settings etc.) Go figure.Note to PCS: When upgrading a production server I have only a few minutes to bring the server down. Is there a way that the installer could transfer prefs while avoiding the above problems? Or is my case just weird?Rob Schmidt New York City rschmidt@panix.com Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: Why don't my carts expire (Rob Schmidt 1998)
  2. Why don't my carts expire (Steve Rosenbaum 1998)
>Date: 25 May 1998 00:02:53 >From: Steve Rosenbaum >Subject: Why don't my carts expire > > >How do I get my carts to expire? They seem to stay in my shopping carts >folder(s) forever. >I can't seem to find the appropriate documentation or setting.I had a similar problem - my carts were building up in the carts folder. I recalled that there was a pref setting for sweeping carts but the template for prefs that came with 2.1.3 didn't allow me to set or check this. So, I opened my prefs in a text editor and found the sweepcart entry which was set to 24. This seemed correct, but my cart folder was filled with a months worth of carts (1000's of files!!!). I was confused. I looked at the prefs file from a clean install of 2.1.3 (when installing 2.1.3 I had kept my old prefs). Beleive it or not the two sets of prefs were significantly different - not just the settings but the pref fields themselves. In the new set of prefs there was no mention of sweepcart frequency. So I put the new (clean install) pref file in my WebCat folder on my production server and restarted WebCat. After a few minutes carts older than 24 hours disappeared. (Of course I then had to scramble to update the security, emailer settings etc.) Go figure.Note to PCS: When upgrading a production server I have only a few minutes to bring the server down. Is there a way that the installer could transfer prefs while avoiding the above problems? Or is my case just weird?Rob Schmidt New York City rschmidt@panix.com Rob Schmidt

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