I want to clean up a Zope instance to remove some installed products that are no longer needed or even available in the filesystem any more. I've got an idea about how to do that and I'm looking for feedback about any problems or shortcomings. My first thought was to look at each Product object under Control_Panel.Products and check to see if its home directory exists. Those objects do have a 'home' attribute but it seems to be unreliable; the values often refer to directories that no longer exist (but did exist at the time the product was installed). Such incorrect home values sometimes occur for products that do exist under $INSTANCE_HOME/Products and that I'm still using. I wasn't able to find any other per-Product attribute with such home-directory information. No joy there. What I've got now (see attached script) considers each of the Products and tries to find an imported Product module by the same name. Any Products without such a module are either orphans (my term) or are a product created strictly through the web using ZClasses and the like. I think. I'm planning to delete the orphaned products from the Control_Panel/Products folder in the ZMI. Does this plan make sense? -- Fred Yankowski fred@ontosys.com tel: +1.630.879.1312 OntoSys, Inc PGP keyID: 7B449345 fax: +1.630.879.1370 www.ontosys.com 38W242 Deerpath Rd, Batavia, IL 60510-9461, USA