Re: [Gramps-users] Could not open file *.grdb error

[<bm...@ca...>]

As an extra to this, if you after reinstall set back the /.gramps/env 
directory,
open of database will only work if the database is in EXACTLY the same 
directory
and with EXACTLY the same name as before you deleted windows. This is because
the env dir contains this data and the database uses dirname and filename to
know which environment is the correct one.

Let us know if you can solve the problem like this.

Benny

Quoting ben...@ug...:

> Hi,
>
> The grdb file format is unfortunately *not* a portable format. It can only be
> opened if also the original ..../.gramps/env directory is present (and on the
> same architecture).
>
> You should backup and port data via the .gramps fileformat which is an XML
> fileformat. (think of .grdb as an SQL database, needing more than a file for
> storage, it needs an environment per database table)
>
> Apart from that, it is unclear to me why the error you get is
> 'unexpected file
> type or format', I'm not really a GRAMPS code guru.
>
> Do you also get this error if you in a console start gramps with:
> gramps --open filename --format grdb
> You can use the 'run' command or dos console I suppose in windows for that.
>
> About the portability issues of the .grdb file format, this will be
> addressed in
> the future with GRAMPS 3.0, redesigning completely how you work with
> family-trees, learning form the mistakes made in 2.2.x series. Unfortunately
> the 2.2.x series has to continue with this problem.
>
> Note that version 2.2.6 saves a backup on exit to mitigate this problem, and
> this backup is in the .gramps format, and can hence be used for
> porting. I hope
> you have kept one of these files before reinstalling Windows.
>
> Benny
>
> Quoting Paul Clarke <pjc...@gr...>:
>
>> Sebastian
>>
>> Did you get a reply on this issue as I also have it.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Paul
>> On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 19:14 -0300, Sebastian R. Wain wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have tried Gramps windows version on December/2006.
>>> After reinstalling my PC and Gramps three weeks ago I tried to open my
>>> files but all I receive was: "Could not open file family.grdb ...
>>> Invalid argument -- family.grdb: unexpected file type or format"
>>>
>>> Is it possible to load my previous .grdb files or do I need to install
>>> an old gramps version and export it to load in latest release?
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Sebastian
>>>
>>
>>
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