Don't complain if seafile data dir is empty. about seafile HOT 6 CLOSED

Can you provide more details ?

• What is the operating system ?
• What steps will reproduce the problem?

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OS: Linux

Steps to reproduce:

• Run setup-seafile.sh
• Proceed till it asks
  Where do you want to put your seafile data?
• Supply an already existing, but empty directory

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Seafile data dir is used to store the metadata and file data by the seafile server. The script ensures the seafile data dir the user specifies does not exist yet, so that this directory would be created and used exclusively by seafile.

Is there a particular reason you want to create the directory yourself?

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Particular reason:

1. I don't have admin access on server;
2. So I ask the admin to install the package and create necessary folders for me (with appropriate permissions.)
3. I run the setup script as an unprivileged user.

I see the logic of exclusivity behind creating a new directory. My only suggestion is that: if the directory already exists, (but is empty anyway, so exclusivity is satisfied) seafile should gracefully accept it.

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Sounds reasonable. I'll fix it in the next release, and thank you for the feedback.

For a workaround if you need, you can remove the lines 259 through line 263 of setup-seafile.sh to turn off this check.

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have same issue on raspbian-jessie 2017 June, seafile 6.1.1 (2017.06.15)

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