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Acquia Dev Desktop delete site fail

Posted by JJmonterey on December 9, 2012 at 4:54pm

I've been using Dev desktop for 18 months. After installing the latest 7.16.xx version on windows 8, I was unable to delete a website added through the standard import function. I then installed the 7.16.xx version on my existing win xp box and encountered the same problem. When I uninstalled the 7.16.xx version on both win8 and win xp and then installed version 7.14.xx on both boxes, the problem disappeared. Anyone else encountered this problem? I'm just curious as to what might have been introduced in the latest 7.16.xx version of Dev desktop to cause this behavior.

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Same Here

Posted by antonspani on January 7, 2013 at 1:17am

I am also unable to delete sites from dev desktop... Any solutions?

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and the same here

Posted by Mark Ritchie on January 10, 2013 at 11:03am

Hi Everyone,
I can't delete a site via my acquia dev desktop control panel either (I'm using drupal 7)
I select the site I want to delete, click delete, confirm ok and nothing happens: the site remains.
Any idea want might be the problem ?
Much thanks!

Mark Ritchie

still the same here

Posted by jexgal on January 16, 2013 at 6:40pm

I've just created a new site for trying it and can´t delete it now.

Installed Acquia Dev Desktop 7.18.17

Here jexgal from Spain
Novice Drupal Lover

Same Problem

Posted by spacerex on January 17, 2013 at 3:21pm

I've just been uninstalling dev desktop when I get too many false starts, but then I have to start from scratch. I'd like to see this bugfix.

A problem without a solution is not a problem, it's a fact.

And again and again

Posted by jexgal on January 24, 2013 at 9:58am

Dev Desktop 7.19 (last version) for Mac OS X clean installation and problem still there. Deleting a site fails. Nothing occurs.

Here jexgal from Spain
Novice Drupal Lover

i was looking into acquia but

Posted by woop_light on January 28, 2013 at 10:19pm

i was looking into acquia but this problem seems pretty silly

me too

Posted by frost on February 1, 2013 at 12:35pm

same problem here (on Mac).

two other problems i also encountered:

1. can't export a site i imported - appears to be because acquia puts the settings.php file in a site-specific folder (like you would for multi-site), but when exporting, it tries to find the settings file in the usual place (ie sites/default).

2. if a new imported site is given a url path, then clean url's dont work and if you go to the site address with a trailing slash (which is where you go if you click a "home" link), you get a 404

The Dev Desktop looks so tantalising for improving our development workflow, but whatever time it was going to save me is being eroded by all these niggling issues!

Acquia Dev Desktop delete site fail

Posted by wdseelig on February 3, 2013 at 12:20am

As of today [2/2/13] this is still failing on 7.18.17

Wyckham

Seems to be fixed in 7.19.18

Posted by rknox on February 7, 2013 at 1:26am

I upgraded to 7.19.18 (from 7.16.xx) on OSX and was able to delete sites.

Thanks for this. I upgraded

Posted by fureigh on March 25, 2013 at 4:33pm

Thanks for this. I upgraded to 7.21.20 on OS X and am now able to delete sites too.

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Also on Windows 7

Posted by nielsdefeyter on April 5, 2013 at 3:59pm

On my win7-64bit and win7-32bit it's fixed. Upgraded to acquia dev desktop 7.22.21.
It deletes the site entry in dev desktop settings and also database, vhost and drupal site folder.

Great piece of software for drupal developers!

Removing sites manually

Posted by os_pilgrim on March 16, 2013 at 12:27am

There is a way to manually uninstall the sites created by the Acquia Dev Desktop. I have it installed on two machines: a Windows XP Pro system and a Windows 7 64 system. The Windows 7 system uninstalls fine. The XP machine, not so fine. So I uninstall my old sites manually. Here's how I do it.

  1. Try to uninstall with the delete button and wait for it to fail...
  2. Delete the database through phpMyAdmin
  3. Open the machine's host file in Notepad, usually found at C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\ hosts Delete the record entry for the site from the host file and save. It will look something like this: 127.0.0.1 MyDrupalSite.
    (WARNING: if you use a real domain name for your local site, you won't then be able to browse to the actual site on the internet. The record in the host file tells Windows that your site is at 127.0.0.1 -- the local host. Once your PC finds the host record file it doesn't bother to check DNS, and you won't be able to reach the site until you remove the record. So, as a rule, you should not use a registered domain address for a site your developing on a local machine.)
  4. If you don't need the files, delete the directory where the site is kept along with all the files.
  5. Browse to where the Acquia dev desktop is installed, C:\Program Files\acquia-drupal\AcquiaDevDesktopControlPanel by default.
  6. Open the dynamic.ini file in notepad
  7. Delete all the references to the site you want to remove. There may be two:
    1. Under the [sites] key there will be a groups of values that define each of your sites. Each site begins with a [sites/m_sites/x] key and ends with phpNum=10000. Find the site you want removed and delete the key-value pairs and save
    2. If the site your are deleting was the last one created, there may be key-value pairs under the [dlgDirs] key near the top of the file. Delete those key-value pairs and save.

Anyway that's how I cleaned it up. The DevDesktop is an awesome tool, but sometimes you have to do a little cleanup on your own.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

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