Re: rename, append--please help

["Herb Rubin" <hrubin@nospam.niu.edu>]

I assume someone more expert will respond but in case not what I'd try first
is simply copying the original data base and renaming it as something else
and then telling nb that other named item is the appropriate ibidem base.
I've done that and it works
Herb R

----- Original Message -----
From: "Marjorie Pryse" <mpryse@nospam.nycap.rr.com>
To: "Multiple recipients of list NOTABENE" <notabene@nospam.piper.hamline.edu>
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 12:29 PM
Subject: rename, append--please help


> Notabene colleagues--
> I have messed up in a major way, I think.  After our recent discussion of
> subsets and databases in Ibidem, I did what I thought was a simple
> thing--renamed my general database.  Subsequently, I couldn't get into
> either the original database or the new one.  Error Message: couldn't open
> "lock file."  I tried a few things, impossible to reconstruct at this
point.
> One thing did work, or seemed to initially: I appended my disk copy of my
> original database to the newlynamed database.  Results:  both original and
> new database now open, but with (of course, should have known) about twice
> as many record numbers.  Clearly, in appending the file, I simply added
> duplicates to the existing database (and may have renumbered them all, as
> far as I can tell).  (I have always been wary of the caution in the Ibidem
> help file about "can't undo" append function, and guess I found out why.
> Here's where more "text" in the help screens would be helpful.)  Of course
I
> don't want to remove records from this new data file arbitrarily, because
my
> entire book manuscript only opens for editing on original database
(although
> the manuscript itself, including original record numbers in codes view,
> seems intact, so I have a history there if I can use it or need to in
order
> to reconstruct original database.  But whether those files would still
open
> with a reconstructed database now seems unlikely to me.).
> Here's my question: how do I start over?  My original data file is still
on
> my computer; it's just that I can't get Ibidem to access it.  For example,
> when I tried moving the new appended data file to the recycle bin, keeping
> only the original data file, I no longer could get access to the data base
> through Ibidem.
> I would like to remove renamed database and move appropriate files to
> original name database so that it could all be as it was.  (Sigh.)
> Any thoughts?  --Marjorie
>
> Prof. Marjorie Pryse
> Chair, Department of Women's Studies
> Professor of English and Women's Studies
> University at Albany
> Albany, NY 12222
> <mpryse@nospam.nycap.rr.com>
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