Failed to delete ODK forms from Aggregate

Hello Community

here is a quick question for you.

Some days ago (on Wed) I tried to delete some forms from my Aggregate platform. The platform confirmed that I managed to delete them. Though when I try to have access to the platform via ODK on my tablet ("Get Blank Form"), it still says that I can find those forms and download them.

Also, these forms where empty (there was no data stored with them), so I do not get why it is taking so much time to delete the forms from the platform.

Any suggestion or idea for me?

Best,
Fra

If you invite me ( mitchellsundt@gmail.com ) to be a developer on your
AppEngine application, I can take a look at the logs.
https://code.google.com/p/opendatakit/wiki/AppEngineTroubleshooting

If you have the checkbox checked to slow background processing, it will
impact this action, but it shouldn't take 2 days.

··· On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 1:27 AM, wrote:

Hello Community

here is a quick question for you.

Some days ago (on Wed) I tried to delete some forms from my Aggregate
platform. The platform confirmed that I managed to delete them. Though when
I try to have access to the platform via ODK on my tablet ("Get Blank
Form"), it still says that I can find those forms and download them.

Also, these forms where empty (there was no data stored with them), so I
do not get why it is taking so much time to delete the forms from the
platform.

Any suggestion or idea for me?

Best,
Fra

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Hey Mitch

thanks a lot, you are actually already invited as a Developer (my account
is BRAC Africa REU, so you should already have access to that!).

Best,
Fra

··· On Saturday, March 21, 2015 at 4:56:00 AM UTC+3, Mitch Sundt wrote: > > If you invite me ( mitche...@gmail.com ) to be a developer > on your AppEngine application, I can take a look at the logs. > https://code.google.com/p/opendatakit/wiki/AppEngineTroubleshooting > > If you have the checkbox checked to slow background processing, it will > impact this action, but it shouldn't take 2 days. > > > On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 1:27 AM, <loiacono.f...@gmail.com > wrote: > >> Hello Community >> >> here is a quick question for you. >> >> Some days ago (on Wed) I tried to delete some forms from my Aggregate >> platform. The platform confirmed that I managed to delete them. Though when >> I try to have access to the platform via ODK on my tablet ("Get Blank >> Form"), it still says that I can find those forms and download them. >> >> Also, these forms where empty (there was no data stored with them), so I >> do not get why it is taking so much time to delete the forms from the >> platform. >> >> Any suggestion or idea for me? >> >> Best, >> Fra >> >> -- >> -- >> Post: opend...@googlegroups.com >> Unsubscribe: opendatakit...@googlegroups.com >> Options: http://groups.google.com/group/opendatakit?hl=en >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "ODK Community" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to opendatakit...@googlegroups.com . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > Mitch Sundt > Software Engineer > University of Washington > mitche...@gmail.com >

Hey Mitch,

I still have problems with these forms being in the Aggregate cloud, in
spite of my attempt to delete them. Any insight on what the problem is?

Best,
Fra

··· On Saturday, March 21, 2015 at 4:56:00 AM UTC+3, Mitch Sundt wrote: > > If you invite me ( mitche...@gmail.com ) to be a developer > on your AppEngine application, I can take a look at the logs. > https://code.google.com/p/opendatakit/wiki/AppEngineTroubleshooting > > If you have the checkbox checked to slow background processing, it will > impact this action, but it shouldn't take 2 days. > > > On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 1:27 AM, <loiacono.f...@gmail.com > wrote: > >> Hello Community >> >> here is a quick question for you. >> >> Some days ago (on Wed) I tried to delete some forms from my Aggregate >> platform. The platform confirmed that I managed to delete them. Though when >> I try to have access to the platform via ODK on my tablet ("Get Blank >> Form"), it still says that I can find those forms and download them. >> >> Also, these forms where empty (there was no data stored with them), so I >> do not get why it is taking so much time to delete the forms from the >> platform. >> >> Any suggestion or idea for me? >> >> Best, >> Fra >> >> -- >> -- >> Post: opend...@googlegroups.com >> Unsubscribe: opendatakit...@googlegroups.com >> Options: http://groups.google.com/group/opendatakit?hl=en >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "ODK Community" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to opendatakit...@googlegroups.com . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > Mitch Sundt > Software Engineer > University of Washington > mitche...@gmail.com >

Ok. You have so many forms and so much data on your server, that you have
exceeded the configured size (256MB) for the server that is allocated to
run background tasks like deleting forms and publishing to external
services.

Because that server keeps crashing with an Out-of-Memory error when it
starts up, it is unable to make progress deleting your forms.

To solve this, you need to edit a configuration file and re-deploy your
AppEngine instance:

(1) Go to the directory where the installer created the ODK Aggregate
folder holding the configured server for this application id.
(2) navigate into the ODKAggregate/WEB-INF directory
(3) using Notepad or a similar text editor (NOT Word), open "backends.xml"
(4) change class from B2 to B4 (to match your front-end instance size).
(5) save these changes and quit.
(6) navigate back up to the ODK Aggregate folder
(7) double-click on "uploadAggregateToAppEngine.hta" and (re)upload your
application to AppEngine.

When it starts, it should begin to make progress on deleting the forms.

If you want the deletions to go faster, be sure to uncheck the

"Disable faster background actions"

checkbox on the Site Admin / Preferences page.

This will increase your daily quota consumption and may consume it all as
it deletes the forms (it unfortunately costs as much to upload all the data
as it takes to delete it).

If you have a lot of data, at some point, dealing with the operational
hassle of changing application IDs may make more sense so that you can
simply delete the application ID and let Google remove the data (for free).

··· On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 11:43 AM, BRAC-Africa Research < brac.africa.reu@gmail.com> wrote:

Hey Mitch,

I still have problems with these forms being in the Aggregate cloud, in
spite of my attempt to delete them. Any insight on what the problem is?

Best,
Fra

On Saturday, March 21, 2015 at 4:56:00 AM UTC+3, Mitch Sundt wrote:

If you invite me ( mitche...@gmail.com ) to be a developer on your
AppEngine application, I can take a look at the logs.
https://code.google.com/p/opendatakit/wiki/AppEngineTroubleshooting

If you have the checkbox checked to slow background processing, it will
impact this action, but it shouldn't take 2 days.

On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 1:27 AM, loiacono.f...@gmail.com wrote:

Hello Community

here is a quick question for you.

Some days ago (on Wed) I tried to delete some forms from my Aggregate
platform. The platform confirmed that I managed to delete them. Though when
I try to have access to the platform via ODK on my tablet ("Get Blank
Form"), it still says that I can find those forms and download them.

Also, these forms where empty (there was no data stored with them), so I
do not get why it is taking so much time to delete the forms from the
platform.

Any suggestion or idea for me?

Best,
Fra

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