file:delete() and hidden files on Mac OS

On 27/02/14 02:46, France Baril wrote: > Hi, > > I need to be able to export content to a clean directory. When I export > content to a directory that used to exist, I need to wipe and clean to > replace everything with new content. > > However, I am getting io-errors: Stopped at > > /Applications/basex/webapp/How2_StaticHTML.xqm, 738/30: > > [io-error] Path '/.DocumentRevisions-V100' cannot be deleted. > > Is there anyway from the basex side to allow deletion of hidden files or do > I have to disable revisions on my computer, so these files never get > created in the first place? The second option seems rather drastic. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > BaseX-Talk mailing list > BaseX-Talk at mailman.uni-konstanz.de > https://mailman.uni-konstanz.de/mailman/listinfo/basex-talk >

Am 27.02.2014 um 10:14 schrieb Dirk Kirsten <dk at basex.org>: > Hello France, > > are you sure you have the required rights to deleted this file with the > user executing BaseX? > Id did a quick test and had not trouble deleted a hidden file. > Furthermore, I did a quick look into the code and deleting works using > the java.io.file.delete() function, so its seems not to be related to BaseX. > > Cheers, > Dirk > > On 27/02/14 02:46, France Baril wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I need to be able to export content to a clean directory. When I export >> content to a directory that used to exist, I need to wipe and clean to >> replace everything with new content. >> >> However, I am getting io-errors: Stopped at >> >> /Applications/basex/webapp/How2_StaticHTML.xqm, 738/30: >> >> [io-error] Path '/.DocumentRevisions-V100' cannot be deleted. >> >> Is there anyway from the basex side to allow deletion of hidden files or do >> I have to disable revisions on my computer, so these files never get >> created in the first place? The second option seems rather drastic. >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> BaseX-Talk mailing list >> BaseX-Talk at mailman.uni-konstanz.de >> https://mailman.uni-konstanz.de/mailman/listinfo/basex-talk >> > > -- > Dirk Kirsten, BaseX GmbH, http://basex.org > |-- Firmensitz: Blarerstrasse 56, 78462 Konstanz > |-- Registergericht Freiburg, HRB: 708285, Geschäftsführer: > | Dr. Christian Grün, Dr. Alexander Holupirek, Michael Seiferle > `-- Phone: 0049 7531 28 28 676, Fax: 0049 7531 20 05 22 > _______________________________________________ > BaseX-Talk mailing list > BaseX-Talk at mailman.uni-konstanz.de > https://mailman.uni-konstanz.de/mailman/listinfo/basex-talk

On 27/02/14 19:49, France Baril wrote: > Hi, > > I can delete the .DS_Store hidden file, but apparently not the version > file. > > The code has nothing special: > > *if* (*file:exists*(*$file-sys-destination*)) > *then **file:delete*(*$file-sys-destination*, *true*()) > *else *() > > > where $file-sys-destination is a path to a folder in the form > publication/model/os/carrier/lang. > > > I upgraded to Maverick and to BaseX 7.8 at 2 days interval so I'm not 100% > sure which one is making a difference here. I'll run some more tests once I > get 7.8.1 running. I'm still on 7.8. > > > > > On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 4:20 AM, Jens Erat <jens.erat at uni-konstanz.de>wrote: > >> If you want to completely wipe a directory, I’d go for deleting and >> recreating the directory itself anyway (given you can write to the parent >> folder). >> >> Yet I’m still curios about the path in the error message, are you really >> trying to wipe the file system root or did you remove some part of the path? >> >> -- >> Jens Erat >> >> [phone]: tel:+49-151-56961126 >> [mail]: mailto:email at jenserat.de >> [jabber]: xmpp:jabber at jenserat.de >> [web]: http://www.jenserat.de >> >> PGP: 350E D9B6 9ADC 2DED F5F2 8549 CBC2 613C D745 722B >> >> >> >> Am 27.02.2014 um 10:14 schrieb Dirk Kirsten <dk at basex.org>: >> >>> Hello France, >>> >>> are you sure you have the required rights to deleted this file with the >>> user executing BaseX? >>> Id did a quick test and had not trouble deleted a hidden file. >>> Furthermore, I did a quick look into the code and deleting works using >>> the java.io.file.delete() function, so its seems not to be related to >> BaseX. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Dirk >>> >>> On 27/02/14 02:46, France Baril wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I need to be able to export content to a clean directory. When I export >>>> content to a directory that used to exist, I need to wipe and clean to >>>> replace everything with new content. >>>> >>>> However, I am getting io-errors: Stopped at >>>> >>>> /Applications/basex/webapp/How2_StaticHTML.xqm, 738/30: >>>> >>>> [io-error] Path '/.DocumentRevisions-V100' cannot be deleted. >>>> >>>> Is there anyway from the basex side to allow deletion of hidden files >> or do >>>> I have to disable revisions on my computer, so these files never get >>>> created in the first place? The second option seems rather drastic. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> BaseX-Talk mailing list >>>> BaseX-Talk at mailman.uni-konstanz.de >>>> https://mailman.uni-konstanz.de/mailman/listinfo/basex-talk >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> Dirk Kirsten, BaseX GmbH, http://basex.org >>> |-- Firmensitz: Blarerstrasse 56, 78462 Konstanz >>> |-- Registergericht Freiburg, HRB: 708285, Geschäftsführer: >>> | Dr. Christian Grün, Dr. Alexander Holupirek, Michael Seiferle >>> `-- Phone: 0049 7531 28 28 676, Fax: 0049 7531 20 05 22 >>> _______________________________________________ >>> BaseX-Talk mailing list >>> BaseX-Talk at mailman.uni-konstanz.de >>> https://mailman.uni-konstanz.de/mailman/listinfo/basex-talk >> >> > >

> If you want to completely wipe a directory, I’d go for deleting and > recreating the directory itself anyway (given you can write to the parent > folder). > > Yet I’m still curios about the path in the error message, are you really > trying to wipe the file system root or did you remove some part of the path? > > -- > Jens Erat > > [phone]: tel:+49-151-56961126 > [mail]: mailto:email at jenserat.de > [jabber]: xmpp:jabber at jenserat.de > [web]: http://www.jenserat.de > > PGP: 350E D9B6 9ADC 2DED F5F2 8549 CBC2 613C D745 722B > > > > Am 27.02.2014 um 10:14 schrieb Dirk Kirsten <dk at basex.org>: > > > Hello France, > > > > are you sure you have the required rights to deleted this file with the > > user executing BaseX? > > Id did a quick test and had not trouble deleted a hidden file. > > Furthermore, I did a quick look into the code and deleting works using > > the java.io.file.delete() function, so its seems not to be related to > BaseX. > > > > Cheers, > > Dirk > > > > On 27/02/14 02:46, France Baril wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I need to be able to export content to a clean directory. When I export > >> content to a directory that used to exist, I need to wipe and clean to > >> replace everything with new content. > >> > >> However, I am getting io-errors: Stopped at > >> > >> /Applications/basex/webapp/How2_StaticHTML.xqm, 738/30: > >> > >> [io-error] Path '/.DocumentRevisions-V100' cannot be deleted. > >> > >> Is there anyway from the basex side to allow deletion of hidden files > or do > >> I have to disable revisions on my computer, so these files never get > >> created in the first place? The second option seems rather drastic. > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> BaseX-Talk mailing list > >> BaseX-Talk at mailman.uni-konstanz.de > >> https://mailman.uni-konstanz.de/mailman/listinfo/basex-talk > >> > > > > -- > > Dirk Kirsten, BaseX GmbH, http://basex.org > > |-- Firmensitz: Blarerstrasse 56, 78462 Konstanz > > |-- Registergericht Freiburg, HRB: 708285, Geschäftsführer: > > | Dr. Christian Grün, Dr. Alexander Holupirek, Michael Seiferle > > `-- Phone: 0049 7531 28 28 676, Fax: 0049 7531 20 05 22 > > _______________________________________________ > > BaseX-Talk mailing list > > BaseX-Talk at mailman.uni-konstanz.de > > https://mailman.uni-konstanz.de/mailman/listinfo/basex-talk > >

On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Dirk Kirsten <dk at basex.org> wrote: > Hi France, > > as Jens correctly pointed out your file path "/.DocumentRevisions-V100" > looks rather suspicious and I guess you neither want to delete this file > nor you can without sudo rights. This is in the root folder and in > general you don't want to delete these files as it could corrupt your > system. Are you _really_ sure you want to delete these files? > > This also explains why you can delete .DS_Store files as these should be > deleteable with normal user privileges. Maybe there is a symlink within > your folder to this directory (I don't have OS X nor do I have any > knowledge about it, so I actually have no idea). I very much doubt that > an update to BaseX 7.8 (or now to 7.8.1) did make any difference as this > is file system related. If you upgraded your OS, this could in fact make > a difference (once again: I guess, as this is OS X specific). > > Please take a look at the file permissions and check if the user has the > required permissions to delete this file. > > Cheers, > Dirk > > On 27/02/14 19:49, France Baril wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I can delete the .DS_Store hidden file, but apparently not the version > > file. > > > > The code has nothing special: > > > > *if* (*file:exists*(*$file-sys-destination*)) > > *then **file:delete*(*$file-sys-destination*, *true*()) > > *else *() > > > > > > where $file-sys-destination is a path to a folder in the form > > publication/model/os/carrier/lang. > > > > > > I upgraded to Maverick and to BaseX 7.8 at 2 days interval so I'm not > 100% > > sure which one is making a difference here. I'll run some more tests > once I > > get 7.8.1 running. I'm still on 7.8. > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 4:20 AM, Jens Erat <jens.erat at uni-konstanz.de > >wrote: > > > >> If you want to completely wipe a directory, I’d go for deleting and > >> recreating the directory itself anyway (given you can write to the > parent > >> folder). > >> > >> Yet I’m still curios about the path in the error message, are you really > >> trying to wipe the file system root or did you remove some part of the > path? > >> > >> -- > >> Jens Erat > >> > >> [phone]: tel:+49-151-56961126 > >> [mail]: mailto:email at jenserat.de > >> [jabber]: xmpp:jabber at jenserat.de > >> [web]: http://www.jenserat.de > >> > >> PGP: 350E D9B6 9ADC 2DED F5F2 8549 CBC2 613C D745 722B > >> > >> > >> > >> Am 27.02.2014 um 10:14 schrieb Dirk Kirsten <dk at basex.org>: > >> > >>> Hello France, > >>> > >>> are you sure you have the required rights to deleted this file with the > >>> user executing BaseX? > >>> Id did a quick test and had not trouble deleted a hidden file. > >>> Furthermore, I did a quick look into the code and deleting works using > >>> the java.io.file.delete() function, so its seems not to be related to > >> BaseX. > >>> > >>> Cheers, > >>> Dirk > >>> > >>> On 27/02/14 02:46, France Baril wrote: > >>>> Hi, > >>>> > >>>> I need to be able to export content to a clean directory. When I > export > >>>> content to a directory that used to exist, I need to wipe and clean to > >>>> replace everything with new content. > >>>> > >>>> However, I am getting io-errors: Stopped at > >>>> > >>>> /Applications/basex/webapp/How2_StaticHTML.xqm, 738/30: > >>>> > >>>> [io-error] Path '/.DocumentRevisions-V100' cannot be deleted. > >>>> > >>>> Is there anyway from the basex side to allow deletion of hidden files > >> or do > >>>> I have to disable revisions on my computer, so these files never get > >>>> created in the first place? The second option seems rather drastic. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>> BaseX-Talk mailing list > >>>> BaseX-Talk at mailman.uni-konstanz.de > >>>> https://mailman.uni-konstanz.de/mailman/listinfo/basex-talk > >>>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Dirk Kirsten, BaseX GmbH, http://basex.org > >>> |-- Firmensitz: Blarerstrasse 56, 78462 Konstanz > >>> |-- Registergericht Freiburg, HRB: 708285, Geschäftsführer: > >>> | Dr. Christian Grün, Dr. Alexander Holupirek, Michael Seiferle > >>> `-- Phone: 0049 7531 28 28 676, Fax: 0049 7531 20 05 22 > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> BaseX-Talk mailing list > >>> BaseX-Talk at mailman.uni-konstanz.de > >>> https://mailman.uni-konstanz.de/mailman/listinfo/basex-talk > >> > >> > > > > > > -- > Dirk Kirsten, BaseX GmbH, http://basex.org > |-- Firmensitz: Blarerstrasse 56, 78462 Konstanz > |-- Registergericht Freiburg, HRB: 708285, Geschäftsführer: > | Dr. Christian Grün, Dr. Alexander Holupirek, Michael Seiferle > `-- Phone: 0049 7531 28 28 676, Fax: 0049 7531 20 05 22 >