[Dp 5.0] CoreData error messages

[sjk]

I was noticing floods of console messages like this since upgrading to DVDpedia 5.0:

Nov 9 10:55:14 aura DVDpedia[20802]: CoreData: error: (External Records Support): symlink from path /Users/sjk/Library/Application Support/DVDpedia/Database.dvdpd to path /Users/sjk/Library/Caches/Metadata/CoreData/DVDpedia/26A2AA4B-AB93-4AF3-AD61-3C61D60C8E59/.support/store-file : Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=516 "The file “store-file” couldn’t be saved in the folder “.support” because a file with the same name already exists." UserInfo=0x1eb5a50 {NSFilePath=/Users/sjk/Library/Caches/Metadata/CoreData/DVDpedia/26A2AA4B-AB93-4AF3-AD61-3C61D60C8E59/.support/store-file, NSUnderlyingError=0x147a230 "The operation couldn’t be completed. File exists"}

Triggered by this bogus symlink:

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% ls -l DVD*/2*/.support
DVDpedia.OFF/26A2AA4B-AB93-4AF3-AD61-3C61D60C8E59/.support:
total 8
lrwxr-xr-x  1 sjk  staff  117 Nov  8 11:20 store-file -> /Users/sjk/Library/Application Support/DVDpedia/.Database.dvdpd.migrationdestination_41b5a6b5c6e848c462a8480cd24caef3

Deleting the entire ~/Library/Caches/Metadata/CoreData/DVDpedia seems to have fixed it now that the symlink in that rebuilt cache directory refers to the correct file:

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% ls -l DVD*/2*/.support
DVDpedia/26A2AA4B-AB93-4AF3-AD61-3C61D60C8E59/.support:
total 8
lrwxr-xr-x  1 sjk  staff  62 Nov  9 11:15 store-file -> /Users/sjk/Library/Application Support/DVDpedia/Database.dvdpd


Actually, I'd installed the last pre-5.0 beta (4.9.3) only hours before 5.0 was released so maybe this was a problem with the beta that's since been fixed.

[Nora]

Deleting that folder ~/Library/Caches/Metadata/CoreData/DVDpedia is the correct way to fix it. It's an issue with Apple's CoreData external record exporter that creates the Spotlight files.

[sjk]

Thanks for the explanation, Nora.