[Babase] converison v7
kfenn
kfenn at princeton.edu
Thu Feb 1 11:31:35 EST 2007
Karl,
OK... will print this out and follow as protocol for updates.
However, I'm not sure what you mean by 'used a new directory (not
DATA/)'. Leah's earlier emails sounded like she preferred that the
official babase only be transferred through the DATA/ directory...so I
don't want to create more DATA_vX - type folders. Can you give me (us)
specifics on a protocol for this? Maybe you just mean that we should
delete the old and create a new DATA/ directory each exchange (as you
suggest toward the end of your first paragraph?)
Tabby
Karl O. Pinc wrote:
>
> On 02/01/2007 08:48:29 AM, kfenn wrote:
>
>> I've got the new DATA file loaded onto papio. It should be in the
>> right place now... I overwrote all the tables in the DATA file.
>
> The best procedure is to first delete everything in the DATA directory,
> or maybe the whole database/ directory if your copying programs
> and everything onto papio. The reason is that for some reason
> foxpro seems to like to change the names of some files. This time,
> we got members.DBF and census.DBF whereas before there was a
> members.dbf and a census.dbf. As a result there's _both_
> a members.DBF and a members.dbf in DATA/. This is ungood.
> I can sort it out manually, but it'd be bad to make
> a mistake.
>
> Even
>> with Leah changing the permissions, I still got a message saying
>> "Encountered 54 errors during the transfer" although each file reads
>> 'complete' in my ssh file transfer window.....so I guess they are
>> OK? (While the transfer was occurring, there was a message by the
>> file reading "error chmod" so whatever 'errors' are occurring are
>> still related to the permissions.)
>
> It seems that the errors are releated to the permissions. Until we
> figure out exactly what's going on, for cases where you're
> passing the database back and forth to Leah it'd be best if
> you both just used a new directory (not DATA/) so that
> we're 100% certain to have no errors in what gets passed
> back and forth.
>
> The thing is, I don't see any particular problem with the
> permissions....
>
>>
>> No versions numbers this time. Hopefully everything is in the right
>> place. Let me know if you wanted them someplace else to make your
>> life easier.
>
> Looks good.
>
> I'm having trouble running the conversion at this moment
> due to some oddity of Duke's network that makes all the
> usernames and group names disappear and replaces
> them with numbers. This seems to happen at rare
> intervals and fixes itself so I hope to get it running
> soon. I suppose it's remotely possible that this is related
> to your error messages.
>
> Karl <kop at meme.com>
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>
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