topic Temp folder in Alfresco Archive

Temp folder

amitabhandari1 — Fri, 14 May 2010 10:24:57 GMT

Is deletion of temp folder is advisable by Alfresco. If we delete temp folder on our production server it throws exception on start up.Alfresco Enterprise 2.1.1OS- Solaris.Please advice

Re: Temp folder

mrogers — Fri, 14 May 2010 11:43:10 GMT

Alfresco needs a temporary folder.

You can set which folder to use for temporary files by setting java.io.tempdir. However you can't get by without it.

Re: Temp folder

amitabhandari1 — Fri, 14 May 2010 11:54:28 GMT

The path of temp folder is set. Still we get some exceptions on start up. Also is it advisable to delete temp folder .

Re: Temp folder

mrogers — Fri, 14 May 2010 15:16:00 GMT

Still we get some exceptions on start up.

Details please.

Alfresco needs the temporary directory, no its not a good idea to try and remove it.

Re: Temp folder

luca — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:15:26 GMT

I think you must non only set this path, but also be sure that this path exist, so you must recreate temp dir if you deleted it because Alfresco doesn't create it if it does'nt find it.

I wrote here because I also want to know if there is some problem if I stop Alfresco and then clean temp folder and then restart?
In other way are the files in temp folder really temporary and Alfresco recreate them if necessary, or Alfresco use them in some way and cleaning it is equal to loose something?

Ok, too many words, I admit it…. ops:
…in few words:

Can I clean temp folder without problems? :roll:

Re: Temp folder

mrogers — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:56:40 GMT

If Alfresco is not running then you can clean the alfresco temporary folder without problem.

Re: Temp folder

luca — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 19:41:29 GMT

Thank You very much!!

Quick and clear! :wink: