[Gramps-users] migrating to new GRAMPS.

[Damon R. <da...@da...>]

Hi, Gramps folks.

It's been a while since I used GRAMPS.  I recently upgraded to Ubuntu
9.10 with GRAMPS 3.1.2-1.

Can you tell me how I might get started again?  I don't know how to open
up my old data files, and to be completely honest, I'm not sure which
set of files are best to use.

I read about corrupted data @
http://gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=Recover_corrupted_grdb
but I'm not sure it's applicable as I don't have reason to believe my
data is corrupted but it's led me to believe it's not as simple as
importing a .grdb file.

I have one collection of files backed up in a folder that has always
been named GRAMPSdata:

total 7748
-rwxrwxrwx 1 damon damon  180039 2009-08-14 14:49 20081115.backup.gramps
-rwxrwxrwx 1 damon damon  179951 2009-06-18 13:53 20081115.backup.gramps.old
-rwxrwxrwx 1 damon damon    8192 2009-11-22 22:08
20081115.backup.gramps.undo
-rwxrwxrwx 1 damon damon 5423104 2009-08-14 14:49 20081115.grdb
-rwxrwxrwx 1 damon damon  179154 2008-11-03 12:06 autosave.gramps
-rwxrwxrwx 1 damon damon   77306 2007-11-24 20:22 autosave.gramps.bak
-rwxrwxrwx 1 damon damon  246418 2008-03-09 17:35 data.backup.gramps
-rwxrwxrwx 1 damon damon  246286 2007-11-24 20:22 data.backup.gramps.old
-rwxrwxrwx 1 damon damon  118492 2009-01-28 12:44 data.gramps
-rwxrwxrwx 1 damon damon   83659 2007-11-24 20:22 data.gramps.bak
-rwxrwxrwx 1 damon damon 1179648 2008-11-03 12:08 restricted20081103.grdb
total 2


I have another collection of files in a backup of .gramps

drwx------ 1 damon damon   0 2010-01-01 08:07 env
-rwxrwxrwx 1 damon damon 387 2010-01-01 08:07 gramplets.ini
drwx------ 1 damon damon   0 2010-01-01 08:07 grampsdb
-rwxrwxrwx 1 damon damon 188 2010-01-01 08:07 keys.ini
drwx------ 1 damon damon   0 2010-01-01 08:07 plugins
-rwxrwxrwx 1 damon damon 227 2010-01-01 08:07 recent-files-gramps.xml
drwx------ 1 damon damon   0 2010-01-01 08:07 temp
drwx------ 1 damon damon   0 2010-01-01 08:07 templates
drwx------ 1 damon damon   0 2010-01-01 08:07 thumb
(END)

.gramps is on a second drive and the big data files have been moved back
to /home/damon/GRAMPSdata/

Should I move .gramps back to /home/damon/.gramps, which is where this
stuff was when I was using Ubuntu 8.04.  What should I do to open up
20081115.grdb?

Thanks,

-- Damon Riley
researching O'BRIEN, BOWIE, MILLER, WUERTH, RILEY, COUNTIE