Visvanath Ratnaweera

I was called to clean a mess in data more than once in the recent times and thinking that the system administrator job is similar to a street sweeper. Now I feel confirmed. It explains why Beppo (of Momo fame) was a hero!

 

Seriously,

> When an H5P activity is viewed for the first time, Moodle automatically generates an export `.h5p` file and stores it in `mdl_files` with:
>
> - `component = core_h5p`
> - `filearea = export`
> - `contextlevel = 10` (system context)
>
> This is by design and functions correctly. The problem occurs when an H5P activity is
**deleted** — Moodle removes the activity record from `mdl_h5p` but does **not** delete the corresponding export file from `mdl_files` or from disk.

 

That is indeed a bug in the size of a mammoth.

> The scheduled task `\core\task\h5p_clean_orphaned_records_task` exists but does not handle cleanup of these orphaned export file records. This is the known gap described in MDL-70700.

 

There it is - since Moodle 3.x, not assigned to anybody, priority low. Must be dead, only a fossil now. We can put it to display together with the exploding PDFs and exponentially multiplying quiz questions.

 

Edit: Almost missed posting it. I thought "Save the changes" saved the post, whereas way, way down at the bottom of the page it was waiting with this, now well-known red-and-green flag:

 

I don't know whether related, but this rating is 10 min old, nothing happening:

 

 

I am posting this in a separate tab of the same browser.

 

Yeah, yeah. An excuse to say, people don't want to write forum posts anymore!

 

Edit: When I visit the thread in a third tab, I see that the rating has been recorded:

 

 

But the first tab still doesn't show it (still at the first screenshot).

 

Edit of edit: Saving this post landed in "Please tick the box to verify you are human" with the "box" (the green circle) already ticked,

as reported here https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=473207#p1896875

 

Edit of edit of edit: Needed another iteration.

 

Edit of edit of edit of edit: Trying to see who rated the post (me), I landed in this:

 

 

But I posted two posts in the last 10 minutes and editing and saving this very post!

((

I assume this is why you had to analyze the code: Restoring course is very slow.

 

Although it is an exceptionally bis course, it is also a chance to improve the performance of Moodle for everybody. Linking it here since that information is relevant when the developers look in to this issue.

US invasion of Iran?