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Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 09:07:17 +0000
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Subject: Re: deletion of index-files fails
From: Ian Lea <ian.lea@gmail.com>
To: java-user@lucene.apache.org, rolarenfan@earthlink.net
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What OS are you running?  What version of lucene?  Are you sure that
you have privilege to delete the files that it is failing on? That
they are part of the index you are trying to remove?  That something
else doesn't have the files open?

It seems likely that you are on Windows and that something is holding
on to the files. I believe that Windows won't let you delete open
files.  You could try calling File.deleteOnExit() for the index files.


--
Ian.


On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 2:19 AM,  <rolarenfan@earthlink.net> wrote:
> So, I have a (small) Lucene index, all fine; I use it a bit, and then (on=
 app shutdown) want to delete its files and the containing directory (the i=
ndex is intended as a temp object). At some earlier time this was working j=
ust fine, using java.io.File.delete(). Now however, some of the files get d=
eleted (segments*) whereas others fail (no Exn is thrown, just java.io.File=
.delete() returns false: _0.cfs, _0.cfx). I've tried closing the IndexReade=
r (no IndexWriter exists at shutdown), but that makes no diff.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> thanks
> Paul
>
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