Re: [Dspace-tech] rogue items with no handles

Hi Bill, I'm curious, what are the details of the NullPointerException which is thrown when you attempt to delete/withdraw these items from the UI? That might give some clue as to what is missing from these items, and how best to temporarily fix them to expunge them completely. For example,

Re: [Dspace-tech] rogue items with no handles

Hi Tim, I worked with Bill locally on the issue yesterday. The null pointer happens because the orphaned item does not have a collection and thus cannot be deleted from that collection. This goes back to that whole argument about items only being able to be removed/deleted from thier containing

[Dspace-tech] rogue items with no handles

Hi folks, I have a couple items in my repository that somehow managed to be ingested without handles. They come up in searches, and are always listed at the top of the recent item list, but are not browsable. I do know the item IDs, but trying to withdraw or expunge the items throws a null