Question

TWiki version: TWiki-4.1.2, Sat, 03 Mar 2007, build 13046

With the tagme plugin, all tags disappear. I do not remember what sequence of actions I performed (move a topic, rename a topic etc) but all the tags disappeared universally. How do I get the tags back and make sure the topics are tagged with the same tags again?

thanks.

Environment

-- KarthikB - 11 Sep 2008

Answer

If you answer a question - or someone answered one of your questions - please remember to edit the page and set the status to answered. The status selector is below the edit box.

A first debug step would be to have a look at the logs:

• your web server error logs (e.g: /var/log/apache2/error.log)
• wiki warnings: data/warn200809.txt
• debug logs: data/debug.txt

Also the "database" (simple text files, actually) is in working/work_areas/TagMePlugin/, you can check if your tags are still there, otherwise you mat want to restore this directory from a backup as a first step

-- ColasNahaboo - 13 Sep 2008

I could not find anything that was related to the tags. I recreated the tags and applied them to some articles only to find that all of them disappeared again when the server restarted after a power failure. There is also no files in work_areas

:/var/lib/twiki/working/work_areas> pwd
/var/lib/twiki/working/work_areas
:/var/lib/twiki/working/work_areas> ls -al
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 2008-01-13 09:41 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 www-data www-data 4096 2008-07-31 15:56 .

-- KarthikB - 15 Sep 2008

If you upgraded the plugin: The working directory of TWiki changed. You need to physically move the tag data to the new location. Specifically from twiki/pub/TWiki/TagMePlugin/ to twiki/working/work_areas/TagMePlugin/

The server restart suggests a different problem though. Is /twiki/working/work_areas a temp directory that loses content on restart?

-- PeterThoeny - 06 Nov 2008