The transfered nodes, not matching a parent, are they set as published nodes? Courier goes through you content transfer and if you trying to transfer nodes that does not have a parent at the destination site, is "parked" in the root of the site as unpublished nodes. When the parent is then transfered later they will be moved into place automaticly.

This happens usually because you reference nodes from a picker like the mntp, which does not already have their parent moved to the destination site. 

The null reference error is most likely caused by a null value in some of your property data, latest umbraco.courier.ucomponents dll on nightly should have taken care of this.

Thanks Per,

The transfered nodes, not matching a parent, are they set as published nodes?

Yes those nodes were published. (actually this is not a great issue as it is only two nodes and their children and I can quickly move them back into the correct place, it is the later issues that are causing a real problem)

Courier goes through you content transfer and if you trying to transfer nodes that does not have a parent at the destination site, is "parked" in the root of the site as unpublished nodes. When the parent is then transfered later they will be moved into place automaticly.

I was transferring an entire site content into an initially empty destination installation so on the first transfer there were no nodes at all, but all were published in the source site, shouldn't that be possible and taken care of by the dependancies?

This happens usually because you reference nodes from a picker like the mntp, which does not already have their parent moved to the destination site.

Isn't that the idea behind the dependancies if I either right click on the root node and transfer or package the entire site? If not should a subsequent transfer override these values once all nodes are in place because this doesn't appear to happen either.

Maybe I've misunderstood, I would be very happy to be told I've got it wrong if there is a right way to be doing this :)

The null reference error is most likely caused by a null value in some of your property data, latest umbraco.courier.ucomponents dll on nightly should have taken care of this.

I'll download that and give it a try and report back progress.

Many thanks,

Matt 

Thanks Per, 

I've upadated the ucomponents dll to the latest file from the Courier_2.5.1_2.5.1.71_hotfix.zip file from the nightly builds on both sites

Recycled both app pools

Removed all Revisions

Removed all Content nodes from the target

Removed all Media nodes from the target

From this starting point. A right click deploy gives the same results and deploying from a revision containing everthing gives the following error:

Umbraco.Courier.Core.Exceptions.ExtractionManagerException: There was a problem with extracting database information for the item: Name:Document Home Property Data | Id:523b7fb9-7452-47fc-8f5c-d110fa91aae0 | Provider:PropertyData. Stacktrace: System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. ---> System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
   at Umbraco.Courier.uComponents.MultinodePicker.ExtractingProperty(Item item, ContentProperty propertyData)
   at Umbraco.Courier.DataResolvers.PropertyDataResolverProvider.Extracting(Item item)
   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
   at System.RuntimeMethodHandle._InvokeMethodFast(IRuntimeMethodInfo method, Object target, Object[] arguments, SignatureStruct& sig, MethodAttributes methodAttributes, RuntimeType typeOwner)
   at System.Reflection.RuntimeMethodInfo.Invoke(Object obj, BindingFlags invokeAttr, Binder binder, Object[] parameters, CultureInfo culture, Boolean skipVisibilityChecks)
   at System.Reflection.RuntimeMethodInfo.Invoke(Object obj, BindingFlags invokeAttr, Binder binder, Object[] parameters, CultureInfo culture)
   at Umbraco.Courier.Core.ResolutionManager.(Item item, ItemEvent e)
   at Umbraco.Courier.Core.ItemProvider.Extract(Item item)
   at Umbraco.Courier.RepositoryProviders.Local.ExtractItem(Item item, Boolean overwrite)
   at Umbraco.Courier.Core.Extraction.RevisionExtraction.•(Item item, Boolean isDependency)
   at Umbraco.Courier.Core.Extraction.RevisionExtraction.()
   at Umbraco.Courier.Core.Extraction.RevisionExtraction.()
   at Umbraco.Courier.Core.Extraction.RevisionExtraction.()
   at Umbraco.Courier.Core.Extraction.RevisionExtraction.()
   at Umbraco.Courier.Core.Extraction.RevisionExtraction.()
   at Umbraco.Courier.Core.Extraction.RevisionExtraction.()
   at Umbraco.Courier.Core.Extraction.RevisionExtraction.()
   at Umbraco.Courier.Core.Extraction.RevisionExtraction.()
   at Umbraco.Courier.Core.Extraction.RevisionExtraction.Extract() ---> System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. ---> System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
   at Umbraco.Courier.uComponents.MultinodePicker.ExtractingProperty(Item item, ContentProperty propertyData)
   at Umbraco.Courier.DataResolvers.PropertyDataResolverProvider.Extracting(Item item)
   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
   at System.RuntimeMethodHandle._InvokeMethodFast(IRuntimeMethodInfo method, Object target, Object[] arguments, SignatureStruct& sig, MethodAttributes methodAttributes, RuntimeType typeOwner)
   at System.Reflection.RuntimeMethodInfo.Invoke(Object obj, BindingFlags invokeAttr, Binder binder, Object[] parameters, CultureInfo culture, Boolean skipVisibilityChecks)
   at System.Reflection.RuntimeMethodInfo.Invoke(Object obj, BindingFlags invokeAttr, Binder binder, Object[] parameters, CultureInfo culture)
   at Umbraco.Courier.Core.ResolutionManager.(Item item, ItemEvent e)
   at Umbraco.Courier.Core.ItemProvider.Extract(Item item)
   at Umbraco.Courier.RepositoryProviders.Local.ExtractItem(Item item, Boolean overwrite)
   at Umbraco.Courier.Core.Extraction.RevisionExtraction.•(Item item, Boolean isDependency)
   at Umbraco.Courier.Core.Extraction.RevisionExtraction.()
   at Umbraco.Courier.Core.Extraction.RevisionExtraction.()
   at Umbraco.Courier.Core.Extraction.RevisionExtraction.()
   at Umbraco.Courier.Core.Extraction.RevisionExtraction.()
   at Umbraco.Courier.Core.Extraction.RevisionExtraction.()
   at Umbraco.Courier.Core.Extraction.RevisionExtraction.()
   at Umbraco.Courier.Core.Extraction.RevisionExtraction.()
   at Umbraco.Courier.Core.Extraction.RevisionExtraction.()
   at Umbraco.Courier.Core.Extraction.RevisionExtraction.Extract()
   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
   at Umbraco.Courier.Core.Extraction.RevisionExtraction.Extract()
   at Umbraco.Courier.Core.Tasks.ExtractionTask.Run()
   at Umbraco.Courier.Core.TaskManager.(IRevisionTask value)
 07/12/2011 15:41:20
 

Any further thoughts?

Could you zip that revision and sent it to me, will have to look into why it's doing this

per at umbraco com

Thanks Per,

I'll send that over in the morning.

Matt

This was fixed in a later update Thanks.

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