Thanks! I had seen the threads you mentioned before, which are in the
neighborhood of what I want to do, but I'm very glad I revisited them
because this time I noticed a key strategy to use in my batch cleanup of
repeater dones - the use of symbol-function to temporarily suppress
org-cut-subtree. (I've also recently discovered the somewhat related
concept of "advice", which could come in handy at some point.)
Anyway, to do my batch cleanup of my existing repeater dones, I will just:
* modify my batch code that archived all my level 2 dones into now
archiving level 2 todos with repeaters, while using symbol-function
to stop the subtree from being deleted from my live org file
* since the subtree remains in the live file, my current problem is to
figure out how to delete all the list items and paragraphs in that
subtree from below the properties drawer to the next headline. (My
dones are not in a LOGBOOK.) Hints on easy ways to delete those
items gratefully accepted!
* also need to add an ARCHIVE: entry into the properties drawer that
points to the headline in the archive file. This would be used in
any future live archiving of repeater dones.
With respect to the live archiving of repeater dones, I am still trying
to figure that out. However I need to do that before I run the batch,
because my current batch code is only intended to be run once, so I
would need the live archiving to be active right after running the
batch. (I'd rather not spend the effort making the batch code re-runnable.)
Any advice appreciated!
On 2/7/26 4:00 PM, Ihor Radchenko wrote:
George Pearson<[email protected]> writes:
This is more a "would be nice" than any necessity. I accumulate an huge
number of done timestamps from my multiple repeaters, and these just
clutter up my master org file.
I know know of no way to clean them up besides copy/paste, though I'm
thinking of trying to write some elisp code for that. It may help
improve my skills.
The tougher job, which I know is beyond me, is archiving the
done-timestamps, as they occur, directly to the archive location, where
I figure the todo item and timestamps would look essentially the same as
they do now in my live org file.
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