[Babase] converison v7

Leah Gerber leah.gerber at duke.edu
Thu Feb 1 11:36:25 EST 2007


Tabby and Karl, 

Perhaps we could do what I have done in the past. 

1. Make sure all of your filenames have ONLY lower case letters
2. Rename the DATA directory as DATA_OLD
3. Transfer the new data into a directory called DATA
4. delete the DATA_OLD directory

Does this make sense?

Leah





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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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