[Koha] What is the point of the Undo Import into catalogue feature?

[Raymund Delahunty]

We regularly import large files of MARC records into our Koha (16.05) database which have to be deleted at a later date… sometimes months later, and sometimes maybe 30,000 records. I have been using the Undo import (sort-of “unstage”) as I found this functionality astoundingly useful. It automated a task, reducing a tedious job to a couple of keystrokes.

However I was dismayed to find that after a recent “Undo” of 13,000 records our database was left over 7,000 “phantom records”- they didn’t exist but the indexing had failed to remove all traces of them

We were advised to use the batch record deletion tool, as the Undo feature wasn’t designed to be used in the way I was using it. “… it is meant to unstage records nearer to the point in time of being added”. (And what’s the point of that?) We had to have our database re-indexed to resolve the problem. Is there any point in the Undo feature if the indexer can’t cope? I hate to think what other dross I had left behind in earlier “Undos”!

Ray Delahunty
University of the Arts London
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