Overwrite existing file - uploadLivelinkDocument

Greg_Ackerson

For some reason, about 5,000 of the documents we've uploaded with a custom app came in with a zero size, and the only way I've found to remove them so they can be re-imported is to use the LL front end and delete them one at a time. Needless to say we'd like to avoid that. Every time I try to re-import them with llService.uploadLivelinkDocument, I get:An Item With The Name Already Exists: Status code:0

Todd_Pinel

You could create a little app that you could feed objectId's to that would use the LAPI DeleteObject method.To get the objectId's I usually do a database query with the pertinent criteria.We've seen this happen sometimes when creating documents and an error occurs. This is because adding a document is a two step process programmatically. Step 1 creates the Livelink Object and then step 2 creates the documents version.Since this operation is not transactional in nature sometimes when an error interrupts the process only the first step gets completed leaving a document object with no corresponding version.This can be confirmed with a database query. Lookup one of the 0 byte document objectId's in your dtree table and then see if there is a corresponding entry in the dversdata table.