Metadata metadata = null;

        File metadataFile = new File(
                localRepository.getBasedir(), localRepository.pathOfLocalRepositoryMetadata(this, remoteRepository));

        if (metadataFile.length() == 0) {
            if (!metadataFile.delete()) {
                // sleep for 10ms just in case this is windows holding a file lock
                try {
                    Thread.sleep(10);