[APBeta] Moving the Observation database to another machine
Paul Rodman
paul at ilanga.com
Tue Jul 7 10:25:09 PDT 2009
On Jul 7, 2009, at 10:11 AM, Gary A. Ferguson wrote:
> What is the proper procedure to move the observation database from
> one machine to another? For example, from the backup of a broken
> laptop running b43 to my desktop running b45. I tried just copying
> the file, but that was a disaster. There seems to be a problem with
> the code that re-links observations to plans. Even if you just say
> the plans are no longer available, it gets into a loop asking for
> them, and eventually crashes. No error log file is created. (I think
> rather than crashing, the OS is killing it off.) This has happened
> on Win7 build 7100 (64-bit) and Vista Home Premium (32-bit.) I
> haven’t tried it on WinXP yet.
In theory that should work. I recall that others have reported the
loop/crash. It's just that I haven't gotten around to fixing it yet.
I'll have a look today. If I had _my_ way I'd remove the "what plan
was used to make this observation" feature and the problem would go
away. However, some users feel it's important.
While I remember, 2.0b46 (the next release) will change the Obs
Database in such a fashion that it won't be usable in 2.0b45 or
before. Just a heads-up.
Paul R.
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