A Model with the same name already exists in the Metadata Store

I learned a tough life lesson—greatness isn’t about doing big things. True greatness lies in doing small things with excellence.

Haha, this sounds familiar! I remember reading a quote from Napoleon Hill:

“If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.”

So here is small tip from my Personal Knowledge Management

I was importing a model to dev environment to built a common package for deployment. I found following error,

A Model with the same name already exists in the Metadata Store. Please delete the existing model if you want to install this model.

So I need to delete existing one and then import it again through command line

k:\AOSService\PackagesLocalDirectory\bin\ModelUtil.exe -delete -metadatastorepath=k:\AOSService\PackagesLocalDirectory -modelname="RanjahJogi"

After you can import model in some temp table in c drive.

k:\AOSService\PackagesLocalDirectory\bin\ModelUtil.exe -import -metadatastorepath=k:\aosservice\packageslocaldirectory -file=c:\temp\RanjahJogi.axmodel