Aug 13 2008
Moodle 1.9: “Ghost” activities created during course import
With the start of the semester less than two weeks away, our faculty are hitting their Moodle courses. Some are importing course data from previous semester’s courses, and in doing so they discovered a bug in which Moodle creates ghost duplicate entries of imported activities. The “ghosts” have the same structure as the imported activities (e.g. if you import two forums and two word files, you get ghost duplicates of those activities without any text or file links).
The tracker report for the bug is here:
MDL-14326: Moodle does not delete empty course_modules after the restore
A related tracker report can be found here:
MDL-10993: Restore creates duplicate activity/resource icons with no text
For us, the problem occurs during imports, and the second tracker accurately sums up the problem we were having.
A patch isn’t available yet, but Tracker reports a possible fix version of 1.9.3 and 1.8.7.
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