[APBeta] Moving the Observation database to another machine

[Paul Rodman]

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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