Re: Consolidating 3 databases into 1

[Gnome]

When you import an sound file, it is automatically copied to the database media folder.

You can try this:

1. Make sure the 'default.db' file is opened in mnemosyne (on windows located in: C:\Users\tnmDamm\AppData\Roaming\Mnemosyne).

2. Import the other databases (file>import).

Then the three other databases should be in the 'default.db' database file. The media should be copied accordingly, if not then that is problably not a problem since you can copy them yourself into the 'default.db_media' folder.

kl. 08:57:31 UTC+1 tirsdag 25. desember 2012 skrev tnmDamm følgende:

New to this program and this site.  Hello fellow learners.

I could not find any real specific instructions for this program (started with 2.0 two weeks ago) updated to 2.2 today..

.I already had many sound clips in French which I wished to use this program for.  I figured out how to make a pretty card and then went to work.  But .... all my sound files were in a file elsewhere on the computer,...not in Mnemosyne's User Data file ,media db.. (didn't even know it existed).   They played quite well.  I learned lots.  But, when I was creating cards it would occasionally say 'media file missing' but it played the sound on the card....This puzzled me.  It also sometimes said 'creating temporary db, when I was importing.

I finally found the database for the media and tried to put all my different databases into one.(like I read I was supposed to have).  I screwed up the whole system.  wouldn't play and lost the pretty formatting. Tried everything I could think of.  Frustrations' ville!!!   Finally deleted the program.  

Have installed 2.2 today.  After much fumbling around trying to find my original cards....I am back to circle 1.... 3 databases.  

What is the correct procedure to consolidate them, please?  

tnmDamm

[Peter Bienstman]

Hi,

Currently there is no feature yet for combining databases and keep your learning history, sorry... You can however export one database in the 'cards' format and them import it in another database, but this will not keep your learning history.

Peter

[tnmDamm]

[tnmDamm]

Dec. 26/12  I did try as suggested.  It couldn't find the file with the database in it.  When I typed it in anyway, it gave me a scary message to send to the author, which I didn't do (or know how to do) ... because I was really doing something probably illegal. Then it ran for hours as if it was really doing it.  I finally cancelled it.  

However, I did go into the program.... 1.  opened the default db. (it only had two cards in it) 2.  I then opened the huge db.hundreds of cards in there.   3. selected all those cards as active and then used 'save as'.  When it asked for place to save,  I sent it to the default.db.  It said it would override any card of the same name? but as I only had 2 cards in there and they were probably also in the huge one I was saving, I said yes.  It did take a fair while to save it.  But I'm smiling....

It appears to be working.  One or two of the cards say media missing and I just check the default_media.db, and lo and behold, that sound file is not there.  I go off to the original source copy and paste it into the default-media.db.  Then it also gives me the sound.

Am having a wonderful learning time.  Gone way past where they (it) wants me to stop.  Thank you for your help and your wonderful program.  

Have lots more questions for another time. 

 

P,S.:  regarding learning history.... I had just downloaded the 2.2 after deleting the 2.0 so there was no meaningful learning history.