OpenRefine running in VM keeps losing projects in shared folder with host

[Tony Hirst]

For a distance education course, we've shipped OpenRefine inside a VirtualBox Linux machine (along with several other packages), setting the OpenRefine project file to be a folder shared with the host.

We've had several reports from users on a Windows host of OpenRefine losing sight of all the projects - has anyone tried a similar approach and suffered a similar issue? Any idea of the cause, or a fix?

--tony

[Martin Magdinier]

Tony,

I don't know if this is specific to having OpenRefine hosted on a VM. Going through the last few months of messages and I found several other people reporting what seems similar issues:

• how to open a project from back up? - mailing list
• project not seen in OpenRefine - mailing list
• Open Refine: Open Project Issue - stackoverflow
• twitter discussion
  

A couple of questions to help to narrow down this issue:

1. Extra information regarding the browser, OS and version of OpenRefine is always welcome

2. Did you try to open a particular project using its URL, for example: http://127.0.0.1:3333/project?project=1946026776557
where 1946026776557 is the project archive name ;  or via the browser history function? This will help to identify if the issue if from the front end to list all projects or at the project storage / saving level.

3. Did this happen on brand new instance of OpenRefine or appear over time? Does a certain number of project trigger the issue?


This might be a good candidate to report it as an issue via github.
Martin

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[Tony Hirst]

I will try to collate the various issues that students have raised and see if I can categorise them... Big issue for me is that I haven't had the issue (and also our students are distance ed students, so no local machines to look at)! Are there any ways I can get detailed debug/log statements out of OpenRefine? (I could try to get some volunteers to collect those...)

I'm wondering if it's a shared folder mount issue...:-( There have been other networking related issues and VirtualBox seems to be quite sensitive (eg to Windows updates)

--tony

[qi cui]

Maybe you shutdown the vm directly. Try to gracefully shutdown the OR(by press ctrl-c, press Y) and wait for the sync to the host share folder then shutdown the vm.