Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm · error

error || "Failed to embed file"

Error message

error || "Failed to embed file"

What it means

Propagation guard in the parsed-files embed endpoint: moveToDocumentsAndEmbed returned success=false, so moving the parsed file into documents and embedding it failed; the operation's error (or a generic fallback) is relayed to the caller.

Source

Thrown at server/endpoints/workspacesParsedFiles.js:93

      flexUserRoleValid([ROLES.admin, ROLES.manager]),
      validWorkspaceSlug,
    ],
    async function (request, response) {
      const { fileId = null } = request.params;
      try {
        const user = await userFromSession(request, response);
        const workspace = response.locals.workspace;

        if (!fileId) return response.sendStatus(400).end();
        const { success, error, document } =
          await WorkspaceParsedFiles.moveToDocumentsAndEmbed(
            user,
            fileId,
            workspace
          );

        if (!success) {
          return response.status(500).json({
            success: false,
            error: error || "Failed to embed file",
          });
        }

        await Telemetry.sendTelemetry("document_embedded");
        await EventLogs.logEvent(
          "document_embedded",
          {
            documentName: document?.name || "unknown",
            workspaceId: workspace.id,
          },
          user?.id
        );

        return response.status(200).json({
          success: true,
          error: null,

View on GitHub (pinned to 3aec848f28)

Solutions

1. Check that the parsed file record still exists in WorkspaceParsedFiles and belongs to this workspace and user.
2. Open the collector and server logs for the underlying embed failure returned by WorkspaceParsedFiles.moveToDocumentsAndEmbed.
3. Verify the vector database provider is reachable and the workspace embedder is configured.
4. Retry the embed after confirming the document content is not empty.

When it happens

Trigger: Failed to embed file: the embedding provider rejected or failed to process the file during workspace file embedding (workspacesParsedFiles.js:93). Triggered when the embedder throws or returns a falsy result while embedding an uploaded/parsed document into a workspace.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

AI-assisted analysis of Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm@3aec848f28 (2026-08-18). Data as JSON: /api/errors/ceabb5d23c90d316. Report an issue: GitHub.