Plone 4: Local Zeo blobs conflict with Plone instance
As the title suggests, there’s a conflict between a Zeo database instance being run together with a Plone 4/Zope instance, and them trying to share the same blob storage folder. But, this only happens if you misunderstand or incorrectly set the option of shared-blob = off, and blob-storage to be the same location as for Zeo in your buildout. If that previous set of (seemingly jumbled) thoughts doesn’t make any sense to you, then move along, nothing to see here.
By default, at the time of writing, blob support within Zeo runs with the bushylayout, and creates …