OK, phew!  Thanks for bringing closure.

Mike

rolaren...@earthlink.net wrote:

I did just now double/triple-check: the IndexWriter is definitely closed.

However (cough), I did have a bogus call to IndexReader.incRef() ... once I removed that, the call to IndexReader.close() actually worked and then the deletion did so too. Thanks; sorry to trouble you.

-Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael McCandless <luc...@mikemccandless.com>
Sent: Mar 6, 2009 4:23 AM
To: java-user@lucene.apache.org
Cc: rolaren...@earthlink.net
Subject: Re: deletion of index-files fails


If truly the IndexWriter & all IndexReaders are closed, then they
should no longer be holding open files.  Maybe triple check that
you've indeed closed everything.

It's remotely possible that some other process (virus checker, source
control clients, etc) has the file open.

You could try Microsoft's (formerly sysinternals) "Process Monitor" to
see which processes have the files open.

Mike

Ian Lea wrote:

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




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