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Error 408 - read time out on deleting top level folder

skushnerenko — Tue, 16 Jul 2019 15:45:07 GMT

I have to clean repository, so I try to delete top-level folder, which contains thousands of folders and documents.After about a minute of popup window "Please, wait, Files being deleted" another popup window shows "Could not delete item".The log contains2019-07-16 18:41:04,741 INFO [webscripts.conn

Re: Error 408 - read time out on deleting top level folder

angelborroy — Wed, 17 Jul 2019 07:58:04 GMT

Deleting thousands of folder / files at the same time is not recommended in Alfresco. The main problem is that every operation is subscribed to the same database transaction, so the server will freeze (this means that 408) before completing the removing operation as transactional cache and other resources are full.

The alternative is to create a process to remove nodes in batches, like this project:

GitHub - keensoft/MassiveDelete: A simple Alfresco massive deletion batch

Re: Error 408 - read time out on deleting top level folder

skushnerenko — Thu, 25 Jul 2019 10:13:43 GMT

The proposed solution is complete, but I have additional question, may I use this solution instead of trashcan cleaner?

As far as I understand REST Delete

s/slingshot/doclib/action/file/node/archive/SpacesStore/{uuid}

should completely remove document from trashcan, should it?

Besides, should I clean versionstore by REST Delete

s/slingshot/doclib/action/file/node/workspace/version2Store/{uuid}

The purpose is to completely remove information from repository

Re: Error 408 - read time out on deleting top level folder

angelborroy — Thu, 25 Jul 2019 11:31:36 GMT

I prefer to leave Alfresco be aware of that.

Probably this diagram can help to understand what happens when a node is removed:

GitHub - keensoft/alfresco-deleted-content-store-cleaner: Alfresco Deleted Content Store Cleaner job