Importing collection data from 1.4 to 2.2.0

[Alan Ezust]

Doh.
make that

http://lazarus.homelinux.net/share/ratingMigrate.tar.gz

:-)


On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Alan Ezust <alan.ezust at gmail.com> wrote:

> Forget the last e-mail, with the attachment. Here is a URL to a better
> tarball that contains a readme too.
>
> http://localhost/share/ratingMigrate.tar.gz
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Alan Ezust <alan.ezust at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> When I upgraded from 1.4 to 2.2, I think i tried every possible
>> combination of copy/import/rescan and never got ratings in properly.
>>
>> So I wrote another program that scanned my 1.4 db and inserted the missing
>> ratings into a 2.2 db.
>> I was kinda curious to know how the new schema differed in any case.
>>
>> I will attach the code that did it to this e-mail. I hope it helps some
>> others too.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Chris Joelly <chris-m-lists at joelly.net>wrote:
>>
>>> Hello!
>>>
>>> i have upgraded to 2.2.0 and finally get used to the new version ;)
>>>
>>> but i have a question regarding importing the data from 1.4:
>>>
>>> i thought that "Importing collection" will import all data from my
>>> previous collection, but, as i read a thread from october on this list
>>> this is not the case. I catched on that thread that i have to rescan my
>>> collection from filesystem in any case.
>>>
>>> So, if i understood if correct, the best way to import the data is:
>>>
>>> 1. scan the filesystem
>>> 2. import the statistics
>>>
>>> hm. in 1.4 i used mysql to store data about my collection. and i want to
>>> use mysql again with 2.2.
>>>
>>> how to deal with the database issue in this context?
>>>
>>> the 1.4 scheme seems to be updated and useless for 2.2, so i can safely
>>> throw away the 1.4 db and create a new one for 2.2? I think no, the old
>>> db is needed for accessing parts of the old statistics?
>>>
>>> but i have to create a new database for the 2.2 db scheme upfront and
>>> configure the connection details before point 1, scanning the filesystem?
>>>
>>> is this the way the upgrade w.r.t the statistics should work smoothly?
>>>
>>> thx
>>>
>>> Chris
>>>
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