Original problem:

I have lots of scripts, dtml methods etc. everywhere which are perfectly well-known to the ZODB, nothing wrong with that, but which are simply not used by me anymore. No usage from other scripts nor methods nor documents. And these buggers I'd like to find.

@Steve:

You forgot to post my suggestions:

Sorry, no offense meant. Here they are:

You can use Zope Find to get a list of them, and then manually audit them. You could instrument such methods to output logging, and check the logs every so often to see what is typically being used.

You could use Zope Find to see if the name of particular methods is used within other methods.

Well, I simply liked to know if anyone had already done it, so I simply forgot to add them. @ Jean:

They're impossible to find :)) Take for example the 'index_html' of a folder: nothing else in my Zope app refers to it. But whenever someone browses to http://my.zopeserver.com/folder they see that 'index_html'. No automatic method can guess what objects have become irrelevant.

Well, the search seed could be an optional argument w/default value 'index_html'.

If you want to find everything that isn't refered to by another Zope object, you could use 'sitecopy' to make a filesystem copy of everything in your ZODB, 'ls -R' to get a list of filenames, and 'grep -r filename *' for each filename in the list. If the grep returns nothing, nothing refers to that object.

You could do the same kind of thing ('ls -R' and 'grep') from the Zope Management Interface using Jerome Alet's zshell.

Interesting suggestions! Of course, these unfortunately won't handle the acquisition thing correctly. To dream a dream: Consider a tab for folderish objects which allows to search them for unused scripts/methods/... (after pressing a button because it would possibly take a while), producing a sortable list of links, with checkboxes for deletion... Consider a tab for methods... which allows to parse them and produces a sortable list of links to the other referenced methods... Maybe I'll write something like that, but it would be my very first Zope product. By the way, new question: Is this the correct mailing list for such suggestions? If not, which one is it? Tobias Herp