From: Jesse M. <da...@gm...> - 2012-04-11 18:52:05
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Doug, Did you try to extract the gpkg file with 7zip, just to see if that crashes as well? -- Jesse On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 8:24 AM, doug <do...@o2...> wrote: > I spoke too soon. > I've removed the media subfolders so that there were no backslashes to > complicate the issue and grampsAIO still crashes with > > "Error extracting into C:\User\dougb\<name of tree>.gpkg.media". > > On checking I see gramps does create the gpkg.media folder with image > files that display normally, but only less than half the original number. > Comparing the files that *did* come down with those that didn't, I can't > see any difference whatsoever in the nature of the filenames - both lists > have spaces, commas, "&" characters, hyphens, mixed capitals and small > letters, etc. > > Any suggestions? > > Doug > > > > On 09/04/12 15:43, doug wrote: > >> Thanks Eckhard and Jesse, >> The fault does seem to be subfolders in gpkg.media. Doing a >> .gramps import creates no problems. >> > > It's not clear to me how to change the "/" Linux >> subdirectory pathnames to "\" Windows ones. >> Where do you do it, in Linux or Windows? And how? >> >> Doug >> >> >> >> On 09/04/12 12:18, Eckhard Genßmann wrote: >> >>> I once had a similar problem when moving gramps data from >>> Ubuntu environment to Windows – some years ago. >>> >>> I had to edit some files to ensure that wherever a path was >>> given to a directory, the backslash  “\†was exchanged >>> to slash “/†. >>> >>> Check also the path-setting handled by environment variables >>> – I don’t know if the gpkg-import also sets some >>> environment variables based on the origin location of your >>> data. >>> >>> Hope this helps. >>> >>> Eckhard >>> >>> *Von:*Jesse Meyer [mailto:da...@gm...] >>> *Gesendet:* Montag, 9. April 2012 07:41 >>> *An:* gra...@li... >>> *Betreff:* Re: [Gramps-users] gramps AIO crashes when >>> importing a gpkg >>> >>> Hello Doug! >>> >>> I don't recall the exact error message I had, but I do >>> recall having >>> >>> an error message when trying to extract a gpkg about a year >>> >>> ago. >>> >>> The problem turned out to be a media file with a filename >>> that was >>> >>> invalid under windows. Gramps didn't handle it well, IIRC. >>> >>> I think I figured it out by trying to extract the gpkg file >>> with 7zip >>> >>> (open source file extractor). 7zip prompted for a new file >>> name. >>> >>> Have you tried making a backup without including media >>> content >>> >>> and seeing if that will import under AIO? >>> >>> -- Jesse >>> >>> On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 8:13 AM, doug <do...@o2... >>> <mailto:do...@o2...>> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> A year ago I tried the gramps AIO on behalf of some >>> relatives using Windows but had it crash on attempting to >>> import a gpkg exported from Linux. >>> I've now tried again with AIO64.3.3.1-1-exe on Windows 7 >>> Professional but get the same result: on importing either a >>> large or small family tree from a gpkg it crashes with the >>> error message: >>> "Error extracting into C:\User\dougb\<name of >>> tree>.gpkg.media". >>> >>> However the media files appear to have been imported into >>> C:\User\dougb and display OK. >>> What's up? >>> Doug >>> >>> >>> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Better than sec? Nothing is better than sec when it comes to > monitoring Big Data applications. Try Boundary one-second > resolution app monitoring today. Free. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Gramps-users mailing list > Gra...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gramps-users > > |