Tellico data being saved as a XML file, not Zip file

[Marcelin Jose-Marcio Martins da Cruz]

Hi,

On 12/7/25 15:14, Robby Stephenson wrote:
> Hi,
> 

> 
> Early in development, the data file was only ever XML so there's some
> legacy code such that if Tellico opens an XML file, it will continue
> to be saved as an XML file, regardless of the file extension.
> 
> Once it's loaded, whether it's XML or not shouldn't make anything
> slower, I don't think.

Me too, I don't think it comes from the storage data type. I observed 
that this comes when I do operations mainly on with images : save data 
when I just imported a bunch of images or (it may seem stupid) sort on 
the image field.

In these cases, it blocks for many minutes : more than 10 minutes. But 
it works - seen with the help of strace. And finally it begin working again.

Remark : Why to sort on the image field ? Just to identify entries where 
this field is empty. Don't know if there is another way to do soL

> 
>> I tried to do "Save as" to see if tellico saves it as a ZIP file. No
>> success.
> 
> Try File -> Export -> Export to Zip, which should force the file type.
> Just be sure not to include the images!
> 
> If you had to do it manually, Tellico expects the file name inside the
> zip file to be named tellico.xml, so if you rename your file to
> tellico.xml, then use the command:
>    zip newdata.tc tellico.xml

Good hint.

Thanks a lot

Have a nice week.

José-Marcio