Hi Tom, I filed a bug a while ago about how the tool reports success, although nothing has happened in the database when the system preference is not configured correctly: http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=6756 Could this be the reason for the problems you had using the tool? Hope that helps, Katrin -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz im Auftrag von Tom Hanstra Gesendet: Do 12.04.2012 19:48 An: Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Betreff: [Koha] Bulk patron anonymize/delete tool I asked this once before and got no response. But hope springs eternal... Has anyone successfully used the "Patrons (anonymize, bulk-delete)" tool available in Koha? We have found neither to work as expected. It acts as if it *thinks* it is anonymizing and/or deleting but does not actually do it. Alternately, if that is known not to work, what might it take to bulk delete patrons at the database level? What kind of a mess will I leave behind if I simply delete patrons from the borrowers table? I assume a normal delete would check to make sure the patron does not have outstanding fines, checked out books, etc. Just whacking the borrowers table won't check those things. So what all else do I need to check before deletion? Thanks, Tom -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tom Hanstra Systems Administrator Hesburgh Libraries of Notre Dame Phone: (574)631-4686 213 Hesburgh Library Email: tom@nd.edu Notre Dame, IN 46556 "Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!" Lewis Carroll - Through the Looking Glass ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha