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Keep your repositories content ({{${archiva.base}/data/repositories/*/) and delete the .index directories of your respective managed repositories (if they exist- see previous section), and execute the repository and database scanners after starting Archiva.

Here are the steps:

1. Compress the (old archiva version)/data dir and extract it into the {{${archiva.base}/data dir.
2. Delete the new {{${archiva.base}/data/archiva/database dir (that you copied)
3. Search for *.index directories under {{${archiva.base}/data and remove any you find. In *nix this can be done like:

cd {{$\{archiva.base\}/data
find . -name "*.index"
(make sure it only finds those that you want to delete)
find . -name "*.index" -exec rm -rf {} \;

Repositories

Keep your repositories content ({{${archiva.base}/data/repositories/*/) and delete the .index directories of your respective managed repositories (if they exist- see previous section), and 4. Go to archiva and click on these to execute the repository and database scanners after starting Archiva.To do this (note: this may be overkill):

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