DSpace 9.1 Batch Import Error

[Jaco van Dyk]

Good day, Everyone,

This issue refers to a previous issue:
DSpace 7.6 Batch Import Error...
Logged: 6 Sept 2023, 20:28:25 by
Elaine Ding

We are trying to batch-import a ZIP file via the Admin GUI, but some imports fail.
I'm attaching a log for one failed attempt.

Error:
2026-02-13T14:37:16.185008720Z ERROR import - 248 @ '/opt/dspace/imports' as defined by the key 'org.dspace.app.batchitemimport.work.dir' in dspace.cfg is not a valid directory

The Directory is valid:
usr@dspaceserver:~# ls -l /opt/dspace/
...
drwxr-xr-x  3 dspace dspace  4096 Feb 18 12:23 imports/

HandleIdentifierProvider is not commented in my XML file:
usr@dspaceserver:/opt/dspace/config/spring/api# grep HandleIdentifierProvider identifier-service.xml
    <!-- If you disable versioning, you need to use the default HandleIdentifierProvider. -->
    <bean id="org.dspace.identifier.HandleIdentifierProvider" class="org.dspace.identifier.HandleIdentifierProvider" scope="singleton">
         The VersionedHandleIdentifierProvider creates a new versioned
    <bean id="org.dspace.identifier.HandleIdentifierProvider" class="org.dspace.identifier.VersionedHandleIdentifierProvider" scope="singleton">
           The VersionedHandleIdentifierProviderWithCanonicalHandles
    <bean id="org.dspace.identifier.HandleIdentifierProvider" class="org.dspace.identifier.VersionedHandleIdentifierProviderWithCanonicalHandles" scope="singleton">

Worth mentioning is that I use DSpace 9.1 with the runnable JAR, which embeds Tomcat for my backend, and PM2 for my frontend.

I'm not sure if there is another log that can guide me to where the issue is, or if I'm perhaps overlooking something?

Reagrds,

Jaco

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[Jaco van Dyk]

I've been reading through all the other issues on the older versions of DSpace, and I can confirm that space is not an issue; the zip files we try to upload are roughly 200 MB in size, whilst the free space on the disk is just shy of 10GB.