<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi everyone,</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you all for the quick responses and advice.</div><div><br></div><div>Following up on the catastrophic rm -rf issue, the action was taken by an internship colleague who was attempting to fix the initial alignment problem based on a set of external AI instructions. Unfortunately, we do not have a regular backup routine for our CQPweb server.</div><div><br></div><div>The good news is that we currently only have 2 or 3 corpora installed, so losing the indexes is manageable.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you again for your guidance on how to recover from this.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Qu Min</div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Nov 20, 2025 at 11:59 PM Hardie, Andrew via CWB <<a href="mailto:cwb@sslmit.unibo.it">cwb@sslmit.unibo.it</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg5246740839442831106">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(21,96,130)"><Apologies I accidentally sent this to Min Qu only when I meant to reply to the list><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>Subject:</b> RE: Re: [CWB] Corpora alignment issue on CQPweb<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(21,96,130)">>></span> We accidentally removed the /data/cqpweb/data/data directory with the command rm -rf /data/cqpweb/data/data. (We then manually
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(21,96,130)">Well that’s your problem … all the indexes were in there. Recreating the directory doesn’t make the indexes come back. You’ve deleted
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(21,96,130)">Failure to install new corpora is probably because the recreated directory has the wrong read-write permissions for the web daemon
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(21,96,130)">If I were in your position I’d be tempted to scrub all the corpus records completely, fix the permissions, and start over from scratch,
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<b>Sent:</b> 20 November 2025 12:56<br>
<b>To:</b> Open source development of the Corpus WorkBench <</span><a href="mailto:cwb@sslmit.unibo.it" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">cwb@sslmit.unibo.it</span></a><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Hardie, Andrew <</span><a href="mailto:a.hardie@lancaster.ac.uk" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">a.hardie@lancaster.ac.uk</span></a><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [CWB] Corpora alignment issue on CQPweb<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you for following up.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">It seems that we are now running into a larger issue (when trying to fix the alignment display problem). We accidentally removed the /data/cqpweb/data/data directory with the command rm -rf /data/cqpweb/data/data. (We then manually create
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<p class="MsoNormal">The current situation is that we can no longer query existing corpora, nor can we install new corpora. The error message is:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> 15 November 2025 13:04<br>
<b>To:</b> Open source development of the Corpus WorkBench <</span><a href="mailto:cwb@sslmit.unibo.it" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">cwb@sslmit.unibo.it</span></a><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Min Qu <</span><a href="mailto:qumino2@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">qumino2@gmail.com</span></a><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [CWB] Corpora alignment issue on CQPweb</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Objet : [CWB] Corpora alignment issue on CQPweb
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