[Kbabel] my previous post

[Nicolas Goutte]

On Friday 25 November 2005 08:50, Yury Tarasievich wrote:
> Hi
>
> --- Stanislav Visnovsky <visnovsky at kde.org> wrote:
> ...
>
> > > I'm moving TM away, all works fine. Now, I've come
> >
> > to
> >
> > > rely rather heavily on my translation database,
> >
> > and
> >
> > > there are some features in kbabel 3.4 I really
> >
> > like.
> >
> > > :) Could I at least try something else before
> > >
> > > back-stepping to sdk 3.3?
> >
> > This will not help you :( The database is corrupt
> > and I have no idea how to
> > fix it.
>
> You're killing me... My TM corrupt? And with no way to
> correct?? :(
>
> OTOH, it's not so that data is not there or is
> inaccessible -- I still receive relevant suggestions
> and rough translation works and DB can be dumped, too.

Yes, but a crash could happen only if bad data is retrieved.

> It's only interoperation between kbabel and DB that's
> not working, and I somehow don't feel like data can't
> be rescued.

>
> Well, what I feel should be done here is exporting of
> complete DB to smth. like plaintext/csv, then
> restoring to scratch TM DB. After all, it came to this
> recently, just after migrating to 3.4, so in worst
> case I'm to loose about 2000 entries.

That is what db_dumb and db_load are for, as far as I understand. (Except that 
the dumb format is not simple plain text or csv.

>
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>
> Thanks all.
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Have a nice day!