Can't modify soem documents/documnet types getting a "blocked" error

So I know this is going to come down to me doing things I should not really have and screwing something up but hoping to get an idea of what I might do to fix the problem.

I used the core uSync to export some content types and the assoicated content nodes from an existing Umbraco 17 install, then I proceded to strip out a few properties from the .config files XML nodes before importing the information into a new Umbraco 17 install.

The import seemed to work fine. The doctypes are there, the nodes and the content I care about is there as well. BUT if I try to do anything (update information, change the config of a data type, move the node) to the document types or the content itself I get this error

Blocked

You cannot make this change, root level items are locked

It is only happening to the content I imported. Another document type that is set as “allow as root” can be modified fine. I looked into the umbraco logs and this error is not showing up there. My runtime mode is set to Development.

The reason I did the import this way is becasue these are news articles and I need to presurve the original publish dates, the assigned author, and the Headine and Atricle propertie’s value on over 500 nodes. Because the old system used a lot of plugins the new system is not using I could not just export import as the import breaks on the missing custom data types from the missing plugins.

If anyone has any ideas what I can do to fix this error would be appreciated.

Hi @Eaglef90

I’m pretty sure that message is coming from uSync rather than Umbraco itself, which is why there’s nothing in the logs.

uSync has a roots feature for baseline sites. Anything sat in the uSync/root folder is treated as belonging to a parent site, and by default the child site can’t edit those items in the backoffice.

Try moving the files into uSync/v17, restart and re-import.

See here for more info.

Justin

That was the problem. I did knot know that the rolder names has special properties to them. I just knew root as another folder it looked at durin import and wanted to keep the files sperated from my v17 folder files that had the core buildout of the site on it while I expermented with importing the modified files.

I went on the remote server, renamed the folder to v16 and restarted the service and now I can modify the content nodes and data types.