MongooseJS cant disable unique to field

Question

This is my mongoosejs schema. I set name unique to false, but this is what i get: MongoError: insertDocument :: caused by :: 11000 E11000 duplicate key error index:

Answer 1

Mongoose won't modify existing indexes, so you'll need to drop that index in the MongoDB shell and then let Mongoose recreate it using the definition in your schema:

> db.images.dropIndex('name_1');