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Guy Johnson
Aug 08, 2016Iron Contributor
Cobalt error
I have a user that is appling Metadata to files in a Library on SharePoint Online. Some of the files accept the Metadata just fine but a few are throwing the following " A Colbalt Error was thrown" a...
David Drever
Aug 08, 2016MVP
Hi Guy,
Cobalt was Microsoft's first attempt at incremental data saves in SharePoint 2010 that was further enhanced and built upon in SP 2013 and became Shredded Storage. The files that are having the issues, are they all Excel spreadsheets? That's usually where I have seen the problem. And usually it's because the document or one of it's incremental saves has been corrupted. I have seen the problem occur in other file types, but most common seems to be Excel documents.
Cobalt was Microsoft's first attempt at incremental data saves in SharePoint 2010 that was further enhanced and built upon in SP 2013 and became Shredded Storage. The files that are having the issues, are they all Excel spreadsheets? That's usually where I have seen the problem. And usually it's because the document or one of it's incremental saves has been corrupted. I have seen the problem occur in other file types, but most common seems to be Excel documents.
Guy Johnson
Aug 09, 2016Iron Contributor
David, Thanx. The files we are dealing with are actually Outlook messages. We added a couple of new columns of Metadata to the Library. 95% of the files in the Library will accept the new Metadata and those that won't are throwing the "Cobalt error"
These files are not generally accessed on a regular basis.
- Aug 09, 2016The only way to know what's happening is just to open a support ticket...in SPO we cannot see what's doing SQL Server behind the scenes when SharePoint data is being stored in the Content DBs
- Guy JohnsonAug 09, 2016Iron Contributor
That was my next step Juan. I like to quickly ask here as most times you guys know the answer and can point me in the right direction.
I'll get a ticket open this morning and report back once I hear from MS support.
- Aug 09, 2016Ey Guy,
Let's us know your findings :-). Good luck with this issue.