Not sure what happened, but after waiting overnight the ERROR indexes
have disappeared and I could update the new indexes successfully. For
anyone else with a similar situation following this thread, it seems
that deleting error indexes can take several hours so be patient! :)

On May 6, 5:14 pm, Ben Gerdemann <[email protected]> wrote:
> I tried using "appcfg.py vacuum_index" again today and the indexes
> were marked as deleting (or queued to be deleted?) in the admin
> console. While this was happening, I tried to upload my application.
> Uploading the indexes failed again with the same error. Reading the
> first error message more carefully, it appears that I should have
> waited until after the indexes were deleted completely before trying
> to upload again. Now I'm stuck with two error indexes that I can't
> delete. When I try to use vacuum_indexes, I don't get any errors, but
> the indexes are still marked as "ERROR" in the admin console. What can
> I do?
>
> On a related note, what kind of support does Google provide for App
> Engine? I noticed a lot of posts about broken indexes in the main App
> Engine group and sometimes a Google employee would respond directly in
> the group asking for the App ID so they could investigate the problem.
> There isn't a way to open a support ticket for your app? It seems like
> there are some problems with indexes that are impossible for users to
> solve themselves and posting for help on the forum hoping that a
> Google employee will respond doesn't seem very professional... BUT if
> someone from Google is reading this my app is vagabooks, and can you
> please delete my indexes? :)
>
> Cheers,
> Ben
>
> On May 5, 8:50 pm, Ben Gerdemann <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > Today I uploaded the first version of my application and got on a
> > message about indexes with errors that suggested that I need to vacuum
> > them. Strange because my data store is completely empty and I've never
> > uploaded anything before...
>
> > Anyway, I'm using Java so I had to download the Python API and install
> > Python (what a pain!) following the instructions 
> > athttp://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java/browse_thread/th...
> > to create a fake app.yaml. And after all this, I still can't vacuum my
> > indexes. appcfg.py found the two indexes with errors, but wouldn't
> > erase them. Here's my error message:
>
> > Are you sure you want to delete this index? (N/y/a): y
> > Deleting selected index definitions.
> > Error 400: --- begin server output ---
> > Deleting a composite index failed: ApplicationError: 1
> > --- end server output ---
>
> > Is there something wrong with GAE today. Can someone at Google help?
> > My App ID is vagabooks
>
> > Cheers,
> > Ben
>
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