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, <rolaren...@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 index is > intended as a temp object). At some earlier time this was working just fine, > using java.io.File.delete(). Now however, some of the files get deleted > (segments*) whereas others fail (no Exn is thrown, just java.io.File.delete() > returns false: _0.cfs, _0.cfx). I've tried closing the IndexReader (no > IndexWriter exists at shutdown), but that makes no diff. > > Any ideas? > > thanks > Paul > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org
