How I long...Yearn for Alfresco to be successful...BUT!!!

[heislord5]

I so wish I could get alfresco to be reliable.

Installed Alfresco, MySQL, Java JDK on Windows XP. 

Moved a fairly large folder from drive to drive (outside alfresco) in 1.5 minutes.

Tried in Alfresco using CIFS and took a very very long time…like over an hour or something, don't remember exactly.

That is not the worst of it.  Tried to delete the files.  Taking forever.  Canceled and tried to continue deleting from Web Client.  Still taking forever and starts throwing errors.  Eventually get to a point where the parent space does not show the subspaces anymore, but the link is in the left pane.  Click it and it is still there with all its subfolders and documents.

Log out and back in and the folder doesn't show, nor the link, but if I search I find the folder.  All the subfolders and documents are still there.  At this point try deleting some of the lower documents and they will not delete.  Now I'm stuck with the content with no way of getting rid of it and it all shows up in my searches.

Error message received when trying to delete:
"Please correct the errors below then click OK:  Unable to delete space due to system error:"

I'm a Documentum developer and administrator.  I long…crave for Alfresco to work, but every time I try, I run into stuff like this.  I can't in good conscience suggest to customers to use alfresco with things like this showing up.  I really really really wish I could, but every time I try again to use it, I become disillusioned due to things like this.

[heislord5]

Ok….getting lots of orphaned objects on deletes.  Alfresco takes many hours to delete files that I I can copy on the hard drive in a few minutes.  CIFS/webdav seems unstable when deleting a whole lot of files in bulk.

[paulhh]

Hi

You don't mention which release.  Are you sure the MySQL tables are InnoDB?  Also, it is worth getting one of the nightly builds of Alfresco, since there have been a few improvements since the last Community release (2.1).

We do have big customers using Alfresco and CIFS in a big way, so I'm sure it's possible to get past the issues you're having.

Tell us a bit more about the size and nature of the directory you're dragging in (depth, no. of files/folders, type/size of documents).

Cheers
Paul.

[heislord5]

I posted a JIRA on the issue and it is as follows:

1) Import many files.  I've used a personal directory on my machine with some development stuff (Web Server…other stuff)
1b) Copy appears to work fine, although I didn't do any validity checking on which folders were there, but I don't have any reason to believe they didn't all copy over fine.
1c) About 5000 files at 1GB total.
1d) Tried with both 2.1 RC and the Enterprise Trial, same result
2) Delete the folders.
2b) Tried deleting from CIFS, WebDav & Alfresco Webapp
2c) Remember CIFS and Webapp both appeared to leave orphans, and I think webdav did too, but I don't remember…I did so much testing its a blur.
2d) The folder I deleted is not visible any more from its parent folder. BUT
3) If I search for the name of some of the subfolders to the folder I deleted, they show up in the search results
4) From the search results, I can click them and navigate anywhere under that folder, and even up to a higher folder.
5) After this delete has failed, trying to delete the folder again continuously fails.
6) Get error messages on attempts to delete the files (at least most of the time if not all of the time).

[paulhh]

Thanks, I'll follow up on this.  I think there are some changes coming that will improve delete performance, but 5000 files shouldn't be a problem.

Cheers
Paul.

[paulhh]

One thing to be aware of is the behaviour of the Breadcrumb - it does not show the path of the current space/object, but a breadcrumb of where's been visited.  Sometimes it can look like an object is inside a space, when infact it isn't, e.g. search -> document/space details.

Cheers
Paul.

[heislord5]

yes,

some of my testing results as far as knowing which interfaces and versions encounter the problem may be inaccurate because I was confused by the breadcrumb.

Some of the versions/interfaces may have correctly done the delete and I was confused by the breadcrumb.

But there are at least some of the interfaces and versions where the actual error was encountered and I received the error message noted in the JIRA when accessing the spaces.  That could not have been caused by the breadcrumb confusion.