Re: [Chessdb-users] huge database download error?

[Peter H. <ph...@sp...>]

Yes, the 'huge' database had been built and is usable, and I did have to 
manually delete the zips and individual download chunks.  Thanks as 
usual for your prompt and accurate assistance.  Great project.

Dr. David Kirkby wrote:
> Peter Horst wrote:
> > Hi - in using Chessdb's built-in downloading facility, I ran across the 
> > following error. This popped up after all 57 pieces of the "huge" 
> > database had been downloaded into /bin/databases.  WinXP Pro SP2.  Not 
> > sure now what to do.  Oh, and I had received a previous error message 
> > saying that Chessdb couldn't locate an md5 executable, but that one was 
> > included with the binary Windows distribution - which is odd, 
> > considering I thought I was using the binary Windows distribution...
> >
> > couldn't execute "": no such file or directory
> > couldn't execute "": no such file or directory
> >     while executing
> > "exec $md5prog $CompleteGameFileName "
> >     (procedure "::tools::DownloadHugeDatabase" line 442)
> >     invoked from within
> > "::tools::DownloadHugeDatabase http://www.chesstutor.net/databases huge "
> >     (menu invoke)
> >
> > Thanks -
> >
> > Peter
> >   
> Hi,
> Sorry about that, it appears to be a bug in the beta release, which of 
> course I'll try to fix before making the next stable release.
>
> I'm not sure why ChessDB can't find md5.exe. It *is* included in the 
> Windows binary install, but perhaps I am mistaken in my assumption the 
> system would find it, should it be in the same directory as the 
> chessdb.exe program. I will look to address that asap. It seems to be a 
> bit inconsistent across windows platforms this one. Its very odd that it 
> is in the same directory as 'unzip' which is also called for TWIC 
> downloads and that works fine.
>
> You will probably find the database is OK and there is nothing needed to 
> do, other than simply use the 3.5 million game database.
>
> ChessDB only calculates the MD5 checksum to verify the database is OK. 
> It will not do that until after it has downloaded all the parts and made 
> the one large database. So unless there was some unexpected corruption, 
> you should find the database will just work.
>
> You may need to delete manually the zip files and the files ending in 
> aa, ab, ac, ad ..az, ba, bb etc manually. Just ensure you do NOT delete 
> huge.si3, huge.sn3 and huge.sg3.
>
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