topic Re: There is no valid items to import in Talend Studio

There is no valid items to import

Anonymous — Wed, 18 May 2016 15:48:38 GMT

I am having a problem in 6.1.1 where I try to import a zipped project and it says "There is no valid items to import". I know I am importing valid items and I have checked the "Overwrite existing items" checkbox. This happened a month ago as well and I had to reinstall Talend. This is an undesirable option. Is there a corrupted .jar or something?
- Bob

Re: There is no valid items to import

Anonymous — Wed, 18 May 2016 21:15:32 GMT

You do not need to reinstall Talend! How do you have exported the items. I hope you have used the Item Export (right click from the node Job Design) ? Otherwise your export is not a valid item export.
An Item Export is actually nothing else then to compress an part of the project and put it into a zip file. If you unpack this file, does it has a talend.project file in the root dir and some folders like process or connections?
If you mind, it would be great to see the directory structure here.

Re: There is no valid items to import

Anonymous — Thu, 19 May 2016 17:35:48 GMT

Items that I have just exported can't even be imported. It appears to attempt to display a message box for a blink of an eye. Goes away too fast to see it. I have been using Talend for many years. But, 6.1.1 is a recent upgrade.

Re: There is no valid items to import

Anonymous — Thu, 19 May 2016 17:38:19 GMT

I have not experienced this. What do you see in the log file? <workspace>/.metadata/.log
I guess there is a invalid xml file - perhaps accidentally created for unknown reason.

Re: There is no valid items to import

Anonymous — Thu, 19 May 2016 17:47:00 GMT

!SESSION 2016-05-19 10:47:01.847 -----------------------------------------------
eclipse.buildId=unknown
java.version=1.7.0_80
java.vendor=Oracle Corporation
BootLoader constants: OS=win32, ARCH=x86, WS=win32, NL=en_US
Framework arguments: -talendReload false
Command-line arguments: -os win32 -ws win32 -arch x86 -talendReload false
This is a continuation of log file C:\Talend\Talend-Studio-20151214_1327-V6.1.1\workspace\.metadata\.bak_0.log
Created Time: 2016-05-19 10:47:08.718
!ENTRY org.eclipse.emf.ecore 2 0 2016-05-19 10:47:08.719
!MESSAGE Both 'org.talend.model' and 'org.talend.model' register a package for 'platform:/resource/org.talend.model/model/TalendFile.xsd'
!ENTRY org.talend.platform.logging 1 0 2016-05-19 10:47:13.476
!MESSAGE 2016-05-19 10:47:13,474 INFO org.talend.repository.ui.login.LoginProjectPage - validate updatesite...
!ENTRY org.talend.platfor

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Re: There is no valid items to import

Anonymous — Thu, 19 May 2016 18:26:07 GMT

Ok here is no hint about your issue. Could you please close your studio and delete the folder <studio>/configuration/org.eclipse.osgi
Do not worry, this is a kind of cache and will be recreated again without any problems. Start the studio again and try the import again.
I can offer I can try to import of your items.

Re: There is no valid items to import

Anonymous — Thu, 19 May 2016 19:08:40 GMT

I should note that my coworkers can import these files.

Re: There is no valid items to import

Anonymous — Thu, 19 May 2016 19:23:37 GMT

Could you please export your own items and create a new workspace and try to import the "problem child"?
I guess your workspace is perhaps damaged.

Re: There is no valid items to import

Anonymous — Thu, 19 May 2016 19:54:37 GMT

<tipping hat> That worked. Many thank you's for allowing me to take some of your time away from whatever you were doing. I really appreciate it.