On 17.04.2012 15:00, Benny Malengier wrote:
> Hello Tina,
>
> Step one is that you now back up the gbkg files, and keep them safe. If
> needed you can send these to somebody to help.
>
> I don't know the install structure of Gramps on windows for AIO, I hope
> somebody of the windows team answers here with indication of where you can
> look for your files.
> Search your filesystem for .gbkp files.
>
> Normally, a directory with .gbkp files also contains .db files and a file
> named name.txt. Open this last name.txt file to see what family tree this
> is. Is it the correct one?
>
> I don't know if the recovery tools for the database are installed on
> windows. Trying to run these on the backup files is an option, see
>
http://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=Recover_corrupted_family_tree>
> Problem with the automatic backup is however that you save a backup on
> close of a family tree, so if you open gramps and something is wrong, and
> you close gramps anyway, then your old backups are overwritten with backup
> of the data that is wrong!
>
> Benny
>
> 2012/4/17 <
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>
>> Hi my name is Tina. I downloaded Gramps last year and I'm afraid I've
>> lost most of the data I've spent that last couple of months inputting. I
>> thought I had backed up the database, but now I can't find where that was.
>> I'm working on a computer running windows vista I believe with Gramps
>> 3.3.1 (AIO v.2). I have checked and there are these gbkg files, but they
>> wouldn't work when I tried renaming them to db files. I'm feeling pretty
>> desperate, please let me know if you can be of assistance, or if there is
>> any hope (even if you aren't the right person for me to contact at this
>> stage). I thank you for your time in reading this correspondence.
>>
Gramps-3.3.1(AIO v.2) only have Python-2.7.2 from python.org which only
include pybsddb-4.8.4.1 statically linked with db-4.7.25 and no db
library or tools (i can't build python for windows in linux)
If you want to try to repair your database you can find those tools at:
https://rapidshare.com/files/2282317098/db-4.7.25-tools.zipit is upx-ed so it is only 700KB in size.
This file can be unzipped to GrampsAIO\bin folder and used from there
(should i include this files in next bundle also?)
Next just follow instructions on links Benny give.
Allways do backup first!!! And work only with copy.
--
Josip
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