Right, I should have included these data in my orig. message (sorry): WinXP, R2.4
I do have permissions and the files are definitely part of the index being removed; nothing outside of (my code that uses) Lucene would have a handle on these files. -Paul -----Original Message----- >From: Ian Lea <ian....@gmail.com> >Sent: Mar 6, 2009 4:07 AM >To: java-user@lucene.apache.org, rolaren...@earthlink.net >Subject: Re: deletion of index-files fails > >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
