Sync issue with Unicorn. What was it and how I fixed it.

Recently I have worked on a project and I had an issue syncing Unicorn and I decided to write this post to share what was it and how I fixed it.

The Problem:

I tried syncing, reserializing Unicorn but I would still keet getting this screen:

This is what my configuration looked like(Note the bolded section):

<configuration xmlns:patch=”http://www.sitecore.net/xmlconfig/”&gt;

<sitecore>

<unicorn>

<configurations>

<configuration name=”Feature.Navigation” description=”Feature Navigation” dependencies=”Foundation.Serialization” patch:after=”configuration[@name=’Foundation.Serialization’]”>

<targetDataStore physicalRootPath=”$(sourceFolder)\feature\navigation\serialization” type=”Rainbow.Storage.SerializationFileSystemDataStore, Rainbow” useDataCache=”false” singleInstance=”true” />

<predicate type=”Unicorn.Predicates.SerializationPresetPredicate, Unicorn” singleInstance=”true”>

<include name=”Feature.Navigation.Templates” database=”master” path=”/sitecore/templates/Feature/Navigation” />

<include name=”Feature.Navigation.Renderings” database=”master” path=”/sitecore/layout/renderings/Feature/Navigation” />

 <include name=”Feature.Navigation.Media” database=”master” path=”/sitecore/media library/Feature/Navigation” />

</predicate>

<roleDataStore type=”Unicorn.Roles.Data.FilesystemRoleDataStore, Unicorn.Roles” physicalRootPath=”$(sourceFolder)\feature\navigation\serialization\Feature.Navigation.Roles” singleInstance=”true”/>

<rolePredicate type=”Unicorn.Roles.RolePredicates.ConfigurationRolePredicate, Unicorn.Roles” singleInstance=”true”>

<include domain=”modules” pattern=”^Feature Navigation .*$” />

</rolePredicate>

</configuration>

</configurations>

</unicorn>

</sitecore>

</configuration>

The Solution

So after reviewing the configurations and validating that they seemed to be correct, I reviewed all the include mappins. So when I got to the Media section I noticed that the path defined on the configuration file didn’t exist within Sitecore’s content tree. It turned out that it was missing the Navigation folder under /sitecore/media library/Feature.

When I created it, unicorn started syncing properly again.  In other words, if you are not being able to sync double check if your configs and the paths underneath Sitecore  are all valid. This was the problem in my case. Hopefully this will save anyone sometime in the future.

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