I deployed alfresco war(community edition) to tomcat and configured alfresco-global.properties in the shared/classes folder , alfresco-global.properties configured a new empty database named "alfresco" , and the app start failed
Caused by: java.sql.SQLSyntaxErrorException: Table 'alfresco.act_ge_property' doesn't exist
at com.mysql.cj.jdbc.exceptions.SQLError.createSQLException(SQLError.java:118)
at com.mysql.cj.jdbc.exceptions.SQLError.createSQLException(SQLError.java:95)
at com.mysql.cj.jdbc.exceptions.SQLExceptionsMapping.translateException(SQLExceptionsMapping.java:122)
at com.mysql.cj.jdbc.ClientPreparedStatement.executeInternal(ClientPreparedStatement.java:960)
at com.mysql.cj.jdbc.ClientPreparedStatement.execute(ClientPreparedStatement.java:388)
at org.apache.commons.dbcp.DelegatingPreparedStatement.execute(DelegatingPreparedStatement.java:172)
at org.apache.commons.dbcp.DelegatingPreparedStatement.execute(DelegatingPreparedStatement.java:172)
at org.apache.commons.dbcp.DelegatingPreparedStatement.execute(DelegatingPreparedStatement.java:172)
at org.apache.ibatis.executor.statement.PreparedStatementHandler.query(PreparedStatementHandler.java:62)
at org.apache.ibatis.executor.statement.RoutingStatementHandler.query(RoutingStatementHandler.java:78)
at org.apache.ibatis.executor.SimpleExecutor.doQuery(SimpleExecutor.java:62)
at org.apache.ibatis.executor.BaseExecutor.queryFromDatabase(BaseExecutor.java:303)
at org.apache.ibatis.executor.BaseExecutor.query(BaseExecutor.java:154)
at org.apache.ibatis.executor.CachingExecutor.query(CachingExecutor.java:102)
at org.apache.ibatis.executor.CachingExecutor.query(CachingExecutor.java:82)
at org.apache.ibatis.session.defaults.DefaultSqlSession.selectList(DefaultSqlSession.java:120)
... 67 more
Alfresco is storing data in 2 places.First is alf_data in which physical files are getting store and another is database where the metadata of files are stored.
When cleaning up, You need to clean both things, otherwise there will be mismatch in physical files and its metadata and the server will crash because of that reason.