Re: [Gramps-users] Gramps file>OPEN problem

[David J P. <dav...@sy...>]

Alex Roitman wrote:

>On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 07:12:35PM -0400, Davamundo wrote:
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>>put a bit of work into it, saved the file and SPLAT !
>>can't open it.
>>file not found (I'm staring at it, I can read the xml text, yup, that's 
>>my data)
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>Hi,
>
>If you can see your xml file by other means than gramps and gramps is 
>saying that "file not found" then there's something funny with your 
>filesystem, directory structure, or permissions.
>
>However, I can guess by the bits I gather from the noises you're 
>making that you are trying to open data.gramps, the file. What you 
>should be doing is (1) create a directory and place your data.gramps 
>there, (2) in the File->Open dialog select that DIRECTORY (not the file, 
>I repeat, DIRECTORY, if that's not clear then try thinking FOLDER).
>
Yeah, OK, select the directory, I got it..
    thanks
       (looks around, shuffles off muttering ...)

>Thank you for a useful bug report. I'm sure the bug (if indeed this 
>is a bug and not the RTFM problem on the user side) will fix itself, 
>being deeply ashamed of its existense. 
>
I did, in fact spend some time (today AND a year ago) rooting around the 
FM, and the docs on the website,
hoping for an explaination. I found nothing. Saving and  opening  data  
directories, instead of files, may work fine, but it is not common app 
behavior. "open a database" and "choose a data directory" are two 
different things.
I can't beleive I'm the first boob to stumble on this counter-intuitive 
dialog, perhaps a clue might be left for other such fools who think 
their data lives in a file ?

  .. other than that It's a fine lookin' app.
Too bad I didn't figure this out a year ago,
I might have input a lot more folks.

thanks,
dp