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By handelaar on
As I get to them, I'm remembering site-killing things it took me hours or days to find, and placing them here where you can find them :)
http://drupal.org/node/22035 explains how Drupal 4.6 does something seriously wonky with paths, and provides enough information for you to patch it manually.
The issue no longer exists in 4.7. And you're unlikely to run into it unless you have a lot of nodes with aliases.
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true!
I did not know there was a patch for this... is this really a patch for 4.6?
I see:
It's a shame this fix was not committed to 4.6.4/5 updates.
We dumped pathauto days after launch since the nearly 4,500 aliases it had generated were truly killing our site. imHo pathauto is a great tool, but for 4.6 is should have a warning label.
I think this thread and where you're going with it would make a great handbook section. Something like "use with caution" tools.
If I have perhaps a dozen
If I have perhaps a dozen path aliases, is it likely to effect speed?
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This module is really needed.
This module is really needed, good aliases is a must for search engines. With 4.7 expected to take really a while, a 4.6 hack to make pathauto work is desperately needed.