XP

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

We are half moved to XP.  NB seems fine thought haven't tried anything real
fancy.  Ibidem works as does orbis.  I'll continue to report as we play with
the new operating system.    (Talk about code -- system came loaded with
almost 3 gig of stuff)

Oh, when we copied our bib files to the new system and followed the 'add'
procedure as Mark described Ibidem instantly created a new data base but
treated it as a personal data base not as a bibliographic data base.   I had
that problem once before;  to solve it, you have to open ibidem.ini, notethe
areas in which the various ibidem data bases are described and overwrite the
erroneous term
 with the word 'bibliographic'.   l

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark D. Szuchman" <szuchman@nospam.fiu.edu>
To: "Multiple recipients of list NOTABENE" <notabene@nospam.piper.hamline.edu>
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 10:08 PM
Subject: Re: rename, append--please help


> Marjorie,
> Copy the database's raw data file (filename.#00, or whatever the
> numbered extension may be) to  a different, safe location.  Then, in
> Ibidem, click File, Maintain Database. Next, click on the database and
> click Remove, confirm and then OK. All this does is to remove from
> Ibidem the registration of a key management file, but not the raw data
> or other files.
>
> Next, use Windows Explorer (or other file management tools) and delete
> all the files that have the same file name as the raw data file,
> regardless of differences in extensions. This includes deleting the raw
> data file (you still have a copy safely stowed away). In fact, since
> you're going to be re-creating your Ibidem database, you might want to
> use the same name as you had before, you may change the filename of the
> (copied) raw data to a different name.
>
> Start Ibidem, and create a new database (and it could have the same
> name as before, if you changed the name of the copied data file). Enter
> a record.  Then click File, Append Records, Ibidem Records. Fill in the
> location of the copied data file and let 'er rip.
> Mark
>
> On Mon, 17 Dec 2001 12:29:44 -0600 (CST), Marjorie Pryse wrote:
>
> >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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