Unable to upload file due to exception: uploads/inventory.xls (No such file or directory)

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Hi Justin

I am trying to add inventory of a test item “XYZ1” to my test location “P-TESTLOC” using data import and it keeps failing and I am not sure what am I doing wrong. I get this message below. I created already the product and the location
so I believe this should work. The one thing I remember that was unique to this import was that Kelsey told us to always type in something for product (never leave that field blank – doesn’t need to be the right value so I entered “aaa”).

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Thanks,

Ana Maria Maldonado

(Attachment inventory.xls is missing)

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There’s an “upload” directory that’s supposed to be created on startup. It looks like on Ubuntu 18.04 it’s trying to create the directory under root (/) which it does not have permission to do.

2019-11-23 05:15:47,957 [localhost-startStop-1] INFO  core.UploadService  - Find or create uploads directory uploads
2019-11-23 05:15:47,960 [localhost-startStop-1] INFO  core.FileService  - Attempting to create directory /uploads
2019-11-23 05:15:47,962 [localhost-startStop-1] ERROR core.FileService  - - Directory /uploads cannot be created

This would happen if the system property for user.home is not populated.

directoryPath = directoryPath.replaceFirst("^~", System.getProperty("user.home"))

For now I’m going to create the directory manually.

ssh username@server
sudo mkdir /uploads
sudo chown tomcat:tomcat /uploads

One other workaround would be to override the uploads directory config property (see https://github.com/openboxes/openboxes/issues/1084)

openboxes.uploads.location = /opt/tomcat/uploads

The underlying issue has been reported in the following issue (see https://github.com/openboxes/openboxes/issues/1351) and will be fixed in an upcoming release.