[mapguide-users] Duplicate/Orphaned Resource Data Files

[Kenneth Skovhede, GEOGRAF A/S]

I have no advice for figuring out why it happened in the first place.

You cannot call any function to get the %MG_DATA_FILE_PATH% mapping.
You may be able to open the dbxml file directly and read out the id's.

My approach would be to use Process Monitor:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx

You can then filter the list to only include "mgserver.exe".
Then simply access the resource, and the file it accesses should pop up 
in Process Monitor.
You now know which file it is actually using.

Regards, Kenneth Skovhede, GEOGRAF A/S



KeithC skrev:
> i have found duplicate files in the \Server\Repositories\Library\Data Files
> folder, e.g. there are 12 copies of the same SDF file in the repositories
> yet only one FeatureSource that relates to the SDF file. There are many
> instances of this, and some of these files are large.
>
> Has anybody else got the same problem?
>
> Why might this have occurred?
>
> And can anybody suggest how to identify which file is actually used by
> MapGuide? The ResourceContent only gives the path to the file as
> %MG_DATA_FILE_PATH% and there doesn't seem to be a way of finding where this
> refers to in each case.
>
> Keith
>