解决neo4j导入数据时报错：neo4j already contains data, cannot do import here报错

完整报错如下：

java.lang.IllegalStateException: ...../neo4j already contains data, cannot do import here
        at org.neo4j.internal.batchimport.store.BatchingNeoStores.assertDatabaseIsEmptyOrNonExistent(BatchingNeoStores.java:215)
        at org.neo4j.internal.batchimport.store.BatchingNeoStores.createNew(BatchingNeoStores.java:192)
        at org.neo4j.internal.batchimport.ParallelBatchImporter.doImport(ParallelBatchImporter.java:99)
        at org.neo4j.importer.CsvImporter.doImport(CsvImporter.java:193)
        at org.neo4j.importer.CsvImporter.doImport(CsvImporter.java:158)
        at org.neo4j.importer.ImportCommand.execute(ImportCommand.java:256)
        at org.neo4j.cli.AbstractCommand.call(AbstractCommand.java:71)
        at org.neo4j.cli.AbstractCommand.call(AbstractCommand.java:34)
        at picocli.CommandLine.executeUserObject(CommandLine.java:1953)
        at picocli.CommandLine.access$1300(CommandLine.java:145)
        at picocli.CommandLine$RunLast.executeUserObjectOfLastSubcommandWithSameParent(CommandLine.java:2352)
        at picocli.CommandLine$RunLast.handle(CommandLine.java:2346)
        at picocli.CommandLine$RunLast.handle(CommandLine.java:2311)
        at picocli.CommandLine$AbstractParseResultHandler.execute(CommandLine.java:2179)
        at picocli.CommandLine.execute(CommandLine.java:2078)
        at org.neo4j.cli.AdminTool.execute(AdminTool.java:89)
        at org.neo4j.cli.AdminTool.main(AdminTool.java:67)
        Suppressed: java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke "org.neo4j.internal.batchimport.staging.HumanUnderstandableExecutionMonitor$ImportStage.description()" because "this.currentStage" is null
                at org.neo4j.internal.batchimport.staging.HumanUnderstandableExecutionMonitor.endPrevious(HumanUnderstandableExecutionMonitor.java:226)
                at org.neo4j.internal.batchimport.staging.HumanUnderstandableExecutionMonitor.done(HumanUnderstandableExecutionMonitor.java:445)
                at org.neo4j.internal.batchimport.staging.MultiExecutionMonitor.done(MultiExecutionMonitor.java:82)
                at org.neo4j.internal.batchimport.ImportLogic.close(ImportLogic.java:560)
                at org.neo4j.internal.batchimport.ParallelBatchImporter.doImport(ParallelBatchImporter.java:93)
                ... 14 more

解决方法

1. 清空数据库：

   请参考链接：https://blog.csdn.net/weixin_35757704/article/details/120233655

2. 重新导入

3. 重启服务

./bin/neo4j start

问题解析

这是因为：

1. 原始的数据库里有值
2. 原始数据库没有删除干净(使用代码不清空数据库是不行的，只删除节点与关系是不够的)