Quarantined data error " Data truncation: Data too long for column 'strvalue' at row 1"

I receive an error when some? data is Quarantined with the message:
“Data truncation: Data too long for column ‘strvalue’ at row 1”

The desctipion on the

How do I analyse and/or fix this problem?

One option is to increase the size of the DB columns - any DB frontend software (MySQL Workbench, SQL Server Management Studio, etc) should have the ability to do this.

The other option is to find whichever alarm is being fired that has a very long property (eg, notes, display path, etc) that’s logging into the journal. Exporting the data should point you in the right direction.

Hello. I have the same recurrent error.
Exporting the data (now) create a file to download in which only serialised information can be found. (ie the fired alarm causing this alarm is not huma readable in this file)

I am having the same issue...


After exporting and opening the quarantine file I find the contents are not human readable, except for the XML tags. I tried to decode the seemingly base64 encoded strings between the XML tags using notepad++ and https://www.base64decode.org/ but did not get any decipherable results.

Here is the content of the exported quarantine.xml file, can anyone provide some help on how to decode this to identify the offending alarm strings?

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<cachedata sourceStore="MySQL" creationTime="Thu Jan 10 20:23:02 MST 2019">
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</cachedata>

@PGriffith, are you able to provide a response to to my question regarding decoding the quarantine.xml file?

I misspoke/was misinformed when I made the original post. The issue here is that while any data can be exported from quarantine, different data types need exporters manually written to make something actually useful to you. So, the export will work, and allow you to reimport, but it’s not particularly useful until we write an editor.

That said, there really is no reason to keep the strvalue column at its default 255 characters - it’s extremely easy to overflow that. We even changed the default in 7.9.11 to create those tables with a longtext or equivalent type, depending on db flavor.