problems removing the garland folders and files

Hi Phil,

I had a similar problem with tyhe garland theme. It created a new folder and bunch of files with each scheme, so I had a bunch of folders (about 15) from playing around with it.

There maybe a quicker way of doing this...but, this worked for me. You can't remove the folders and files because the "owner" of the folders isn't "you", so to speak.

Open a text editor, paste in the following. edit the garland-number to match the garland folder you want to remove.

Save the file as index.php. Upload it to your drupal sites' /FILES/ folder and then navigate to www.example.com/files. (/files/ is the default name Drupal expects the site files folder to be. You may have named that to something else when initially setting up your site.)

After a second you should see a message to indicate that the permissions have been set to 0777.

now you can remove the /color/ folder and everything in it using your ftp software.

// Set chmod permissions to 777
chmod ("color", 0777);
chmod("color/garland-1b805a2e", 0777);
chmod("color/garland-259ee7cd", 0777);
chmod("color/garland-280410aa", 0777);
chmod("color/garland-2a985ce1", 0777);
chmod("color/garland-910b7da4", 0777);
chmod("color/garland-e2aced97", 0777);
chmod("color/garland-e436f607", 0777);
chmod("color/garland-f0279b8b", 0777);
chmod("color/garland-f58e0d86", 0777);
print "Folder permissions change complete, you can now delete the folders using FTP software";

please note that there maybe a much quicker way of doing this....but, I was stuck a while back trying to remove a testbed of Drupal 5.0 because of the garland folder thing and the anove worked for me.

It's a pain in the neck, but, I believe there are improvements on the way with how the garland theme works. Which is welcome, because as the default theme, it looks great but if it creates problems like this for a lot of people, it might turn some off Drupal. I thinnk this particular issue has something to do with server configuration and it would be common with shared host accounts....which I imagine would factor in a large amount of users.

Anyway. hope that helps

Don't forget to edit the snippet above so the garland folder names match what's on your server!

Dub

I tried it but etdidn't work, when I open the /file folder, i'm redirected to the main page and the chmod didn't change.

Any idea?

Thanks