Re: [Gramps-bugs] RE : Re: Bug report gramps-2.1.91

[Alex R. <sh...@gr...>]

Yohann,

On Sun, 2006-08-27 at 12:04 +0200, Yohann Lorand wrote:
> Nothing much more to say but that worked. I deleted a 8.6MB log file
> in ~/.gramps/bsddbenv and everything works like a charm.

Glad it helped. Just keep in mind that this trick is not something
you want to do every day. The thing is, in 2.1/2.2 branch, the grdb
files cannot be taken outside the db environment. So if you clear
the environment then the existing grdb files may not work.

In general, to never see the problem with the environment, one
needs to manage grdb files from within gramps. Something like this
scenario *can lead to problems*:
   1. Open filename.grdb  in gramps
   2. Quit gramps
   3. Replace filename.grdb file another filename.grdb file
      created elsewhere, or rename file2.grdb into filename.grdb

We hope to make grdb files truly portable when python2.5 is released
and shipped in all distributions. Until then, if you need to move
data to another user or to another machine, please export to XML.

Alex

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Alexander Roitman   http://www.gramps-project.org