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Console App - Deleting records error

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Posted on by ChrisJC 1,540

I have a console app for cleaning up attachments in our CRM that for some reason is throwing an error today.

My relevant code is (I pass an Entity Collection of ActivityMimeAttachment records):

foreach (Entity r in records.Entities)
    service.Delete(r.LogicalName, r.Id);


On the delete line I get the error "Guid should contain 32 digits with 4 dashes (xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx)." but the guid is 10f316ee-7a60-e511-8117-c4346bac3e84:

6406.err.JPG

How do I resolve this?

This is for CRM Online version 8.2 - could that have something to do with it?

Thanks

EDIT:

Further testing indicates this is specific to deleting attachments. I can delete other types of records by passing a different entity collection to the foreach loop

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  • Community Member Profile Picture
    Community Member on at

    Hi,

    I think you should probably remove the curly braces"{" and "}". It will surely resolve your problem

  • ChrisJC Profile Picture
    ChrisJC 1,540 on at

    Hi Guillaume,

    The Guid is retrieved from the CRM so it should be formatted correctly.

    However, to check I have added the following but still get the same error:

    Guid id = new Guid(r.Id.ToString().Replace("{", "").Replace("}", ""));

    service.Delete(r.LogicalName, id);

    Thanks

    Chris

  • HenriquePalomo Profile Picture
    HenriquePalomo 510 on at

    Hi Chris.

    Are those emails on draft state? If the answer is no, try to change to draft state using workflow for example and try to delete again.

  • ChrisJC Profile Picture
    ChrisJC 1,540 on at

    Hi Henrique,

    I've tried that, the emails are in draft but I'm still getting the same error on the service.delete line.

    Thanks,

    Chris

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    Nuno 2,005 on at

    Hi,

    Don´t you have any plugin running on activitymimeattachment entity delete message. The error could come from it because it seems all ok with your code.

  • ChrisJC Profile Picture
    ChrisJC 1,540 on at

    Thank you Nuno - good point. We have Adobe sign that has a plugin with a pre-delete step. I've disabled this while we clear out the data.

    Thanks,

    Chris

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