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Re: [m2e-dev] Metadata File > 700 MB
Quoting Igor : "The same Lucene index can't be used by multiple JVMs concurrently. At least this was the case when m2e indexer integration code was written"


On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 9:08 AM, Tom Schindl <tom.schindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Enabled or not why is this file created for each workspace?

I tend to have multiple workspaces and because i ran out of disk space
on my virtual machine I remember this thread and I have 7GB of indices
so can't different workspaces not share the same index?

Tom

On 19.09.14 13:52, Igor Fedorenko wrote:
> You can disable this in m2e preferences, simply uncheck "Download
> repository index updates on startup".
>
> --
> Regards,
> Igor
>
> On 2014-09-19, 4:14, Robert Munteanu wrote:
>> Hi Will,
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Will Herrmann <wjherrmann@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>> I recently discovered that there is a metadata file for m2e that has
>>> ballooned to over 700 MB in size. Specifically, its file path is:
>>>
>>> [Eclipse
>>> Workspace]/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.m2e.core/nexus/26522e0d83a422eed93329ece7565cfc/_1n.cfs
>>>
>>>
>>> The name of the file, and the folder that contains it, are not
>>> descriptively named, so I have no idea what this file is or if it's
>>> important to m2e's operation. I see that it was modified recently on
>>> my computer (about 2 hours ago), but I'm not sure why, especially
>>> since I haven't been working on any Maven projects lately.
>>>
>>> Is this 700 MB file a bug? Should I (somehow) send it to someone? Is
>>> it safe to delete it? Any help would be appreciated.
>>
>> IIRC this is the Lucene index used by m2e for its searches. You can
>> delete it but It will probably get recreated. Also I think it got
>> disabled by default in 1.5 .
>>
>> Robert
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks in Advance,
>>> -Will Herrmann
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