When deleting subjects via REST, SCANS not deleted from filesystem

[Isabel Restrepo]

Hi All,

When I delete a subject via the API using /data/projects/{{current_project}}/subjects/{{current_subject}}, I can still see all the SCANS in the filesystem. The subject does not longer show up on web UI. If I delete simply using the web UI, then corresponding folder in the archive is gone as expected. Do I need to pass something special to the rest API? The docs here - https://wiki.xnat.org/display/XAPI/Subject+API#SubjectAPI-Delete(OrUnshare)ASubjectRecord  seem to indicate that it should get deleted. I'm in 1.8.2.2.

Thank you for any wisdom!

Isabel

[Moore, Charlie]

Hi Isabel,

That is handled by the "removeFiles" query parameter. If omitted (or set to false), XNAT leaves the files in place while deleting the subject/experiment records from the database. I've updated the documentation you linked to include the missing query parameter. Hopefully it's a bit clearer now.

Thanks,

Charlie

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[Isabel Restrepo]

Thank you! and thank you for updating the documenation!

[Martin Boswell]

Thanks for sharing this info.  I accidentally discovered a lot of orphaned directories in my archive a while back and  trying to figure out where they came from was on my list of tasks for the near future.  

Now I know how to stop this from happening, but I have a pretty big cleanup job to do to find these excess files.  The only way I can think of to find these is to look at each dir in my archive and then query XNAT for an experiment, assessor, etc. with a matching name.  

Does anyone know of an easier way to find a list of  the orphaned files (or dirs)?  

 - Martin