topic Re: Empty Contentstore.deleted in Alfresco Archive

Empty Contentstore.deleted

valfontanette — Thu, 20 Feb 2014 13:51:54 GMT

Hello everyone!I deleted my files, deleted from trashcan and my contentstore.deleted folder is always empty. Is there another place they can go???In this case, I am using Alfresco 3.2r and tenants. They are located at tenantstores\tenant-name. Even after deleting the files from trashcan, they contin

Re: Empty Contentstore.deleted

marco_altieri — Thu, 20 Feb 2014 14:48:07 GMT

Hi,

I haven't been using the community edition for several years, but I do not think that it is different.

The spring context file alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/content-services-context.xml defines the bean "contentStoreCleaner"

For example in my version of alfresco the bean is configured with the following snippet:


   <!– Performs the content cleanup –>
   <bean id="contentStoreCleaner" class="org.alfresco.repo.content.cleanup.ContentStoreCleaner" init-method="init">
      <property name="protectDays" >
         <value>${system.content.orphanProtectDays}</value>
      </property>
      <property name="deletionFailureAction" >
         <value>${system.content.deletionFailureAction}</value>
      </property>
      <property name="eagerContentStoreCleaner" >
         <ref bean="eagerContentStoreCleaner" />
      </property>
      <property name="jobLockService">
         <ref bean="jobLockService" />
      </property>
      <property name="contentDataDAO">
           <ref bean="contentDataDAO"/>
      </property>
      <property name="dictionaryService">
         <ref bean="dictionaryService" />
      </property>
      <property name="contentService" >
         <ref bean="contentService" />
      </property>
      <property name="avmNodeDAO">
            <ref bean="newAvmNodeDAO"/>
      </property>
      <property name="transactionService" >
         <ref bean="transactionService" />
      </property>
   </bean>
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As you can see the instance variable is called protectDays but the property to set is called system.content.orphanProtectDays.
This property is set to 14 by default (in repository.properties).
Of course, be careful to change this configuration.

I think that 14 days are not too much in general and it would be better not to change it. If you have deleted a lot of documents, you can probably modify this property temporarily.
Because the community edition does not have the jmx interface, as far as I know, you need to restart the server to change this configuration.

Re: Empty Contentstore.deleted

valfontanette — Thu, 20 Feb 2014 15:31:57 GMT

Hi Marco.altieri

I have done this already.
Today I found a forum post saing that Alfresco has by default disabled trigger that launches the process of cleaning permanently deleted files. To activate it I need to edit the file / Alfresco / tomcat / webapps / alfresco / WEB-INF / classes / alfresco / scheduled-jobs-context.xml

I just did that. Now I am waiting. My protectDays = 1. I'll see it tomorrow.

Thanks a lot for your attention,

Re: Empty Contentstore.deleted

valfontanette — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 13:35:35 GMT

Hi,

I activated the trigger that launches the process of cleaning permanently deleted files by editing the file / Alfresco / tomcat / webapps / alfresco / WEB-INF / classes / alfresco / scheduled-jobs-context.xml
It worked!

Re: Empty Contentstore.deleted

omkar — Fri, 06 Feb 2015 10:19:41 GMT

Hi valfontanette. Can you tell how to activate the trigger that launches the process of cleaning permanently deleted files? Even I need to free some space. When I changed the "protectDays" property to 1, nothing appears in the "contentstore.deleted" folder. I am using Alfresco 3.2 which has Lucene indexes in it. Attaching the "scheduled-jobs-context" herewith for reference.

Regards,
Omkar v. Kulkarni

Re: Empty Contentstore.deleted

mathias_lin — Wed, 23 Sep 2015 12:38:00 GMT

You are looking in the wrong file for the protectDays parameter. For that, you should look into content-services-context.xml. Or set "system.content.orphanProtectDays=1" in repository.properties, which imho is a better solution than editing the xml file.

Regarding scheduled-jobs-context.xml, here the relevant parameter to set is: system.content.orphanCleanup.cronExpression. This should also be set in repository.properties. (In your xml file, there is no such parameter as "protectDays".)