(08-11-2012 08:36 AM)Liriel Garnet Wrote: one thing i *can* guarantee is it doesn't remove the cat info from the DB (that'd be poor db management, leaving all the OS records as orphans, and KittyCatS does a great job keeping the DB straight), best i can tell it simply removes it from your active list. you can *still* get to the cat's pedigree and offspring info (which means it's still in the db and you're still somehow the 'owner' of record)
Just because a practice or technique is not a best practice or standard technique doesn't mean that it's not done by people in the industry with the best of intentions LOL Trust me, I've seen a lot of that in my years, and a lot of them were excellent designers and developers just trying to solve a problem quickly.
Anyway, I'm just going by what I was told by a KC authority when I asked about it: that they are removed from the database and that it isn't possible to retrieve them. Some kind of history is obviously still there, hence the pedigree info but enough of the cat's record/info is gone such that retrieval isn't possible in their eyes. I wondered if it would be possible to use this last bit of info to reconstruct the records necessary but obviously they must permanently remove enough data that it isn't, or they wouldn't have claimed it as not possible.
