topic Re: QV 11 - User Documents - can't remove qvw in QlikView

QV 11 - User Documents - can't remove qvw

Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:19:17 GMT

Hi.

For some reason our QMC is still showing a User Document, that has been removed.

I have tried to re-create the a document with the same name, just to be sure that no Task or DocCal was allocated the document. And there is nothing of that kind assign to the document.

But after checking for all that and after deleting the qvw-document again, the document still shows under the User Document in the QMC.

Trying to apply some change to the document in User Document pane, I'm getting the error:

"Failed to set document meta data".

For some reason the document name is spelled with upper case (capital) letters in the QMC.

Any ideas how to remove that User Document from the QMC?

(It's not possible to remove the pgo-files, because they holds a lot of info on other documents).

Re: QV 11 - User Documents - can't remove qvw

Bill_Britt — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 22:23:06 GMT

The PGO files don't hold document information. That is stored in the .meta file. Make sure you remove the .meta and .share file for that document.

Bill

Re: QV 11 - User Documents - can't remove qvw

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 03:39:02 GMT

Hi Bill

Thanks - I did remove both meta og shared

Re: QV 11 - User Documents - can't remove qvw

fabienmd — Tue, 14 May 2013 15:04:16 GMT

Hi,

We have the same issue, a .qvw is in userdocument and we can't remove it.

Did you find a way to remove yours ?

Thanks

Re: QV 11 - User Documents - can't remove qvw

Wed, 15 May 2013 03:53:18 GMT

Hi fabienmd

No - it's still there.

Re: QV 11 - User Documents - can't remove qvw

Wed, 22 May 2013 06:43:31 GMT

Hi again.

Looking at the qlikview event-log it turned out, that qlikview for some reason had dobbled the path for the qvw-file in our NAS. That is: the qvw-file (the user document) was placed in:

\\nas1\gruppe\QlikView Storage prod\PUBLIC\QlikViewServer

but the event-log pointed at

\\nas1\gruppe\QlikView Storage prod\PUBLIC\QlikViewServer\nas1\gruppe\QlikView Storage prod\PUBLIC\QlikViewServer

After creating this path - and putting the a qvw in the folder with the relevant name, it was possible to delete a DocCal that was attached to the file. Deleting the qvw file again and the false dobble-path - this made the User Document disappear.

Re: QV 11 - User Documents - can't remove qvw

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 10:11:37 GMT

Hi,

I have the same problem, but I can't create this path. According to the event log it points to

C:\ProgramData\QlikTech\Documents\E:\QLIKVIEW_ANWENDUNGEN\VERÖFFENTLICHTE DOKUMENTE\

and it's not possible to create a folder named "E:" ...

Where the QV-Server stores this information? Can I changed the path there?

Thanks

Re: QV 11 - User Documents - can't remove qvw

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 10:35:13 GMT

where do you find the eventlog where this is written??

Re: QV 11 - User Documents - can't remove qvw

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 11:13:46 GMT

I found it on the QV-Help:

The default location on Windows 2008 Server is

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\QlikTech\QlikViewServer

Re: QV 11 - User Documents - can't remove qvw

Anonymous — Wed, 04 Dec 2013 21:20:05 GMT

Did you find a solution to this problem? According to my event log my document is in D:\QlikviewDocs\D:\QlikviewDocs. I can't create a folder name "D:"

Thanks

Re: QV 11 - User Documents - can't remove qvw

cpiocpio — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 11:36:16 GMT

I just happened to a very similar issue.

I was working through the Server Publisher Training Exercises, which involves setting up server ant then onto a publisher set up.

I found that I too had a QVW file showing in USERDOCS folder in QMC where the file did not exist. It showed in UPPERCASE.

I restored back to a point where I was just running SERVER and not publisher and found the same issue there.

So ....

Since QVW not is User Docs folder ..

I put it back in USERDOCS, since at SERVER point, it would not reference any SOURCE folder

Disabled the 2 tasks that exist at this point

and then in QMC User Document – removed the RELOAD schedules

So now – no tasks show

Checked Document Cals and 5 were assigned

Removed User assigned to document in QMC User Document

Removed Cals assigned to document in QMC User Document

Deleted QVW from UserDocs
AND BINGO, no more Non Existent File showing in QMC User Document

Re: QV 11 - User Documents - can't remove qvw

Thu, 27 Feb 2014 10:13:51 GMT

You say : "but the event-log pointed at" .... where did this pointing appeared.

I have the same problem, but I can't find this line

Re: QV 11 - User Documents - can't remove qvw

Thu, 27 Feb 2014 12:44:34 GMT

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\QlikTech\QlikViewServer in one of these Event*.log ... But it has happened for a while and now a can't find this line again ...

But the problem isn't solved: The Management Console shows me these filenames ...

Re: QV 11 - User Documents - can't remove qvw

Tue, 01 Apr 2014 09:03:51 GMT

Hi Joachim,

I've just had the same problem here, with ghost documents trying to be found by the server in the folder:

C:\ProgramData\QlikTech\Documents\S:\Blablabla\...

What I have done:

Changing the Root Folder for the QVS in the System/Setup Tab to a brand new one.

Restarting the QVS Service (It is automatic, though)

Done!

No more ghost qvw in the User Document tab.

Edit: Be careful however: your CALs will be reset, so spare you some time to replace them for each document.

I've juste have to step back because all my users could not connect to their doc (due to my CAL being not assigned anymore)