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Published Jul. 2, 2025

Document Library does not get deleted from the temp directory after re-indexing when using Amazon S3 Store

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Amit Tiwari

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Issue

Steps:

  1. Set up Liferay to use Amazon S3 Store
  2. Navigate to Site Administration > Content & Data > Documents and Media
  3. Upload several documents
  4. Perform a re-index of the instance
  5. Navigate to [Liferay_Home]/tomcat/temp directory

Expected Behavior: To see that the temp directory does not contain a copy of the S3 database

Actual Behavior: See that under temp/liferay/s3, a copy of the S3 repository (including image files) is created.

Environment

  • Liferay DXP 7.2 FP 10

Resolution

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