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How to empty/clear database?

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Topic: How to empty/clear database?

Posted By: padreick
Subject: How to empty/clear database?
Date Posted: 11-November-2013 at 5:41pm

Is there a way to clear the database of all existing products and categories? We haven't gone live with the store and want to completely rearrange how things are organized.

Thanks

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Posted By: Greg Dinger
Date Posted: 11-November-2013 at 5:51pm

search the wiki for "purge products"

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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 11-November-2013 at 10:54pm

As the wiki is notoriously weak in its search feature, here's the link to the article:

http://wiki.productcart.com/how_to/remove_all_products" rel="nofollow - http://wiki.productcart.com/how_to/remove_all_products

Versions 4.5+ include this page in the control panel (purgeAllProducts.asp), but without a link to it (because it's dangerous to give easy access to!). This is all the more reason to make sure you have renamed your control panel folder to something cryptic!

This will not, however, enable you to delete all categories. If you have so many of them that it's arduous to manually delete them all via the control panel, it is very simple to delete them all via script (or even easier with direct access to the database).

Also, just a heads up that there is some confusing terminology here: "delete" a product in the control panel actually just flags it as "removed" in the database; while "remove" in this tool actually does delete it from the database entirely.

Posted By: padreick
Date Posted: 12-November-2013 at 3:08pm

Thank you! I guess I couldn't get the wording right to find it on google. I was trying to clear the database all at once, but removing all the products and then deleting the categories should work just fine. I appreciate the help.