HowTo: Manage OpenHab 2 configurations

[Dim (Angelos)]

Hi @mbuchberger1967,

There has been a major change since I wrote the original post with regards to how OH2 stores the configs. See here:

Replacement of mapdb by jsondb

All, I feel sorry to tell you that the distro build #624 brings another breaking change, but as in the past, I am certain that it is for the better! There has been a long discussion around the problem that the Things that are created through the Paper UI are stored in a binary database (the mapdb, data to be found under userdata/mapdb), which is not readable or manually editable (e.g. for fixing or cleaning). @chris came up with a nice new implementation of a storage service (luckily, ESH is …

Many of the commands in the original post still work but they are more related to bindings and their configurations (not so much for items, sitemaps, things, etc)

I would go the way that @Udo_Hartmann recommends (keep your customized configuration files and reinstall)

Another way would be: Karaf console, then:

smarthome:links clear
smarthome:items clear
smarthome:things clear

This will clear out whatever OH2 has stored internally. Make sure that you have removed the _default files, keep your files in the configuration directories and OH2 will re-read them and populate the internal (json) database.