Re: [Gramps-users] Database Loading Issue

[Kelvin L. <ne...@ki...>]

> The portability issue matters to everyone -- even those who don't port
> their dbs today. Sooner or later every one of us will have a head
> crash, build a new machine, upgrade our distro or move between OSes.
> As it is today, any one of these events will break our databases. Who
> is comfortable with that? Not me!
> 
> I suppose that I also will be unable to restore my db from a backup
> with 2.2 as well.  No amount of performance improvement is worth this.

I absolutely agree - previous messages have referred to "those users who 
wish to achieve portability". Portability is not the issue - I've spent 
a long time building my database and I'd be rather upset to find that if 
my PC was damaged or stolen, the nightly backups I have carefully kept 
are unusable.

I have seen the messages on exit about "Export to XML for portability" 
but I had no idea that my backups might be useless until I happened 
across this thread today. Thank God I did. Others might not be so lucky.

With this in mind I'd suggest that the next release must put being able 
to access the database before performance.