[Design] [cosmo] [proposal] [bug 9080] Remove and delete items

[Mimi Yin]

Awesome, I don't think we have any issues with remove/delete then :)

On May 9, 2007, at 3:20 PM, Brian Moseley wrote:

> On 5/9/07, Mimi Yin <mimi at osafoundation.org> wrote:
>
>> bcm, Is this true of unpublish as well? When collections are removed
>> from the server either via the account browser or by a Desktop  
>> user...
>> + Are the items in the collection deleted?
>> + Or are only items that *only exist in that one collection* deleted;
>> and
>> + Items that also exist in other collections are preserved.
>
> that's correct. for each child of the deleted collection, we remove
> the association with the deleted collection. some of those items are
> still in other collections and are not processed further. the rest of
> the items, those which are no longer members of any collections, are
> then deleted.
>
> note that in the case of deleting a collection there is no tombstone.
> if user a unpublishes a shared collection, the next time user b tries
> to sync the collection, he'll see that the collection does not exist
> in the server. there's no information available about when the
> collection was deleted.
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