Re: [xwiki-users] Help Request! Running the Attachment Porter

Thanks Vincent. I finally figured out from Craig Wright's comment ("FOR THOSE NEW TO XWIKI") that a)there is such a thing [as a code snippet that runs in a page] and that this is one of them. Being completely unaware of the existence of snippets, I would never have guessed that this was one. I followed step 1: Step 1: Switch to Filesystem attachments. I followed step 2: Step 2: Add a new directory to your backup routine. I read step 3: Step 3: Copy attachments from database to filesystem. Now you are ready to copy the data over from your database to the filesystem. It is prudent to leave the attachments in the database since in most situations the attachment data is not bothersome just sitting in the database (The only risk of attachments left in the database is that they will bloat the size of the database files). As such, this script contains no facility to delete entries from the database. If anything goes wrong in this function, it will fail with an error message and you should get the stack trace, keep it to confuse and humiliate the developer with. No harm should be done since this only loads from the database and only saves to the filesystem. I read step 4: Step 4: Make sure everything is working. Check to make sure your attachments are still there, if an attachment is broken, ... <snip> I felt quite sure that how to run the thing should be in step 3; 2 is too soon, and 4 is too late. But how? Nowhere in the text does it actually say how to run the thing!!! So I googled looking for other's comments on forums, etc. I YUM installed Groovy and tried running it on the commandline. I removed the leading and trailing lines ("[[grovy]]") which caused errors. I got class not found errors. I read step 3 again. I started reading the details of CLASSPATH and /bin/build-classpath. With reluctance and just a little resentment. It was an extwemewy fwustwating expewience. That said, I realize it the mailing list is for questions, not complaints, and so apologize to all for this complaint, and will take it and my other such observations to Jira and log them as bugs. dkl The information contained in this transmission may contain West Marine proprietary, confidential and/or privileged information. It is intended only for the use of the person(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination, distribution or duplication of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. To reply to our email administrator directly, please send an email to netadmin(a)westmarine.com.