I just wanted to get some aliases rebuilt. I changed some pathauto settings, activated "mass generation" and fired the form. Result was it didn't regenerate any node. I played around with the settings which didn't change anything.

After deleting some aliases out of the database nothing changed. it still didn't regenerate the aliases. I think this worked with 1.x

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greggles
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Title: Regeneration buggy » bulk update doesn't create aliases
Status: Active » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

In 5.x-2 (depending on exactly which version you have) Pathauto only creates aliases for nodes that are currently not aliased. Can you confirm that you deleted the alias for a node and it was still not regenerated? I just tested it again and this part of it worked fine (though some tokens were not replaced...which is a separate issue).

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fhelmschrott commented

ok i didn't know this was intentionally - in this case "mass actualization" doesn't make too much sense it only creates but does no actualization. Also deletion of single aliases is pain :(

anyway - the answer is: no i didn't delete any aliases.

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If you don't like the text please suggest better text. Simply complaining about why something is bad isn't helpful to improve the module.

In terms of deleting aliases manually - I spent a lot of time writing documentation to describe how to delete aliases either entirely or in smaller groups: http://drupal.org/node/144904 Your suggestions on ways to improve that documentation or make it more easy to find when people need it are welcome.

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fhelmschrott commented

Hi greggles,

sorry for running up so late.

suggestion instead of "mass actualization": "generate missing/previously deleted aliases".

for the alias deletion your handbook pages are nice (i didn't know them but also didn't need them). On the long term probably a user interfaces for alias deletion would be the better way. I would jump in developing one but unfortunately i'm not good enough for that now.

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Title: bulk update doesn't create aliases » change "bulk update" to "bulk generate new aliases"
Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info) » Active

The idea of an interface for deleting is discussed in http://drupal.org/node/128366

Just changing the title to reflect the state.

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Status: Active » Fixed

The text now says:

"Bulk generate aliases for {objects} paths that are not aliased"

And still has the subtext:
"Generate aliases for all existing user-tracker pages which do not already have aliases."

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Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)