File source - delete file and re-import

Hi Barry,

Did you destroy the files after deleting them? If not, then they are still in the vault but they are kept hidden from ordinary users. As Admin you can create a View that shows deleted objects. In that view you can chose to undelete or destroy each object.
If you have not yet destroyed the objects you are likely to get a conflict when trying to import again with the same metadata.

BR, Karl

Yes, i checked the destroy box

Are there a lot of these files in the external folder? Could you temporarily move them to a different location, run the import, then move the files back to the monitored folder and run the import again? Perhaps this would re-trigger the importing.

Not Many files, but your suggestion of moving the files to a new location worked. 

Sorry another quick question, is there a way to capture the original date modified if OCR is turned on in File Source? I noticed that if the document is OCR'd, then i can not capture the original date modified 

I don't know that, sorry. If this is important, a workaround might be to disable OCR in the file source and instead put the imported docs into a workflow where you run the OCR operation. This would create an extra document version though.