Bulk remove notes

[JFallows (James Fallows)]

@PaulWalters

…ctions that change containers run the risk of destroying your work and the structure of your document. With NO possibility of undoing the action. Be very careful and do not use what I recommend unless you are certain you understand the consequences. Test this on a duplicate of your main file and make sure you have multiple backup copies.

Of course agree on the caution --and the recommendation.

Question: could you build in a protection against this irreversibility, with a sequence like this?

• Create a new string attribute, like $OldPath
• Set up an agent to deal with all items, or just the ones you think might be deleted, and have its action be $OldPath=$Path(original). (Which would assign the existing container structure to an attribute – and save it for later reference.) Obviously you would want to run this agent only once, or maybe apply it as a stamp, so it wouldn’t get updated and overwritten if you moved the originals.
• Then apply the agent that would move the notes to the \Trash container.

As a failsafe, you could send things back to where they started with an undo-style agent, whose action was $Path(original)=$OldPath(original). Right? Or is there a step I am not understanding?