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ContentStore not cleaning up. disk almost full

patdelaney — Sat, 14 Sep 2013 20:35:29 GMT

I an using Alfresco 4.2.c Community Edition, I was deleted a bunch of content via the web UI, but it is not freeing up disk space, I have looked at this article http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Content_Store_Configuration and changed the protect to 1 day. I even restarted alfresco and it's not moving t

Re: ContentStore not cleaning up. disk almost full

mrogers — Sun, 15 Sep 2013 14:59:00 GMT

Yes content-store.deleted is the last place where the content resides, its a last chance to back it up.   Delete it and its gone.

When you delete content in alfresco the content is deleted from the workspace store (or wherever your node was to start with.)   Depending upon whether archiving is enabled (it normally is) the node is moved to the archive store.   I could then be recovered from the "trashcan".    The next step towards destruction is when the archive store is cleaned out.   At that point if there are no other references to the content item it is "orphaned".

The next step is that there is a scheduled job that typically runs in the early hours of the morning that moves oprhaned content from the content store into content store deleted.   Its worth noting that this is the only time that content gets altered in the content store.

Once the content is in the the deleted folder then it can be deleted.   And its gone forever.

Re: ContentStore not cleaning up. disk almost full

patdelaney — Sun, 15 Sep 2013 21:49:33 GMT

What log should I check to make sure that the cleanup jobs are really running?

Re: ContentStore not cleaning up. disk almost full

valfontanette — Wed, 19 Feb 2014 14:43:56 GMT

Hi,

I delete my files, delete from trashcan and my folder contentstore.deleted is always empty. Is there another place to go???
In this case, I am using tenants. They are located at tenantstores\tenant-name. Even after deleting the files from trashcan, they continue in the folder and the contentstore.deleted is empty. I set protectDays = 2.

Which folder files can I delete in this case? I need space.
Please any clues about this?

Re: ContentStore not cleaning up. disk almost full

angelmartinboni — Tue, 26 Sep 2017 08:16:46 GMT

Hi! where you set the protectDays value?

My content-services-context.xml containt:

<value>${system.content.orphanProtectDays}</value>

and I don´t know where ir came from...

Best regards! Thanks. Angel