[Kbabel] my previous post

[Gudmund Areskoug]

Hi Yury,

I just happened on this, and haven't followed the thread properly, so 
please bear with me if I'm out to sea.

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

I don't know if indexing is used with/in this DB, but if you're lucky, 
it is, and that is what's broken. Then your data *might* still be intact.

What one should (TM) do, is of course always to have made backups in 
advance... Extra important for DB's since there's rarely any undo (if ever).

> 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. 

I don't know what was in your DB, but shouldn't you be able to recreate 
at least some of it by batch processing po files/po compendia?

> Could somebody recommend:
> - good DB exporintg/importing tool with db4, csv, text
> capabilities
> - some kind of visual db browser/explorer with ability
> to browse db4 databases?

If someone finds a way to get your data out, TMX might be a good option. 
Perhaps go via some kind of ODBC way?

Will report back if I find something. If you want to, I could give it a 
try with a (proprietary) tool I have when/if I have a minute to spare.

BR,
Gudmund