Re: [Exist-open] Schroedinger's file state

[Nick S. <nsi...@nu...>]

Christian,
     This is a known issue that eXist-db 5.3.0 SNAPSHOT fixes. We also 
experienced this same issue and it was recommended that we move to this 
newer version and we have not had any problems since doing so.

Nick

On 4/28/21 12:55 PM, Christian Achter wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> this happened to me now several times during the past half year, and 
> on different machines. We are using eXist 5.2.0 on several machines 
> (Ubuntu).
>
> Sometimes, when a user renames e.g. an existing directory/collection, 
> the renaming works - somehow. The name is changed, but the content of 
> the collection is not accessible anymore. Re-renaming the collection 
> is not possible. Deleting the renamed collection is not possible.
>
> Creating a new collection with the old name is also not possible. 
> eXist then reports that this collection already exists (also it was 
> renamed).
>
> Our users use Oxygen XML Author to handle our XML files and collections.
>
> As an admin, I use the following tools to try to get rid of those 
> collections:
>
>   * WebDAV (via Oxygen XML Author)
>   * eXide in the browser and the file manager you can access from there
>   * Java Admin Client (bin/client.sh)
>
> All of those do not work.
>
> So in these cases, I have Schroedinger's collections: I can see them 
> in the tools mentioned above but I not access them because they do not 
> exist anymore. At the same time, I can not delete or replace them as 
> they somehow still exist.
>
> Fun fact: I even had XML files I could not access via any of the tools 
> above, but they could be accessed by XQuery scripts that were exactly 
> reading these files.
>
> Usually, in these cases, I re-install eXist-db and restore a current 
> backup. But I am pretty tired of this workaround.
>
> Is this a problem of indexing? How can it be solved?
>
> Thanks for all advise in advance.
>
> Christian
>
>
>
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