restoring a backup to Language Forge

[Dawut G]

I have lost some data in the Language Forge version of the dictionary, but have a Flex backup I can restore. How do I overwrite the Language Forge data with the Flex data? (If I simply do Send and Receive I'm afraid the reverse will happen).

David

[Christopher Hirt]

Hi David,

Here are a few options:

Option A:

1. Delete your Language Forge project (if you are the owner)
2. Contact the Language Depot admin (ad...@languagedepot.org) and ask for your Language Depot project to be reset to an empty project that you can push a new FLEx project to
3. Restore the FLEx project and push it to the project above (or alternatively push it to a brand new FLEx project)
4. Create a new Language Forge project and connect it to the above FLEx project on Language Depot

Option B (I haven't tried this so I cannot verify it will work):

1. Restore the FLEx backup on top of the project with the lost data.
2. Send/Receive with FLEx and hope it works out
3. Clean up data if necessary
   

Warm regards,

Christopher Hirt

Team Manager - Thailand

SIL Language Software Development

chris...@sil.org

      

On Tue, Oct 1, 2019 at 4:23 PM Dawut G <daw...@gmail.com> wrote:

I have lost some data in the Language Forge version of the dictionary, but have a Flex backup I can restore. How do I overwrite the Language Forge data with the Flex data? (If I simply do Send and Receive I'm afraid the reverse will happen).

David

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[Dawut G]

I just thought of the 2nd option myself. It's simpler, if it works. I'll try it now...

David

On Tuesday, 1 October 2019 10:36:29 UTC+1, Christopher Hirt wrote:

Hi David,

Here are a few options:

Option A:

1. Delete your Language Forge project (if you are the owner)
2. Contact the Language Depot admin (ad...@languagedepot.org) and ask for your Language Depot project to be reset to an empty project that you can push a new FLEx project to
3. Restore the FLEx project and push it to the project above (or alternatively push it to a brand new FLEx project)
4. Create a new Language Forge project and connect it to the above FLEx project on Language Depot

Option B (I haven't tried this so I cannot verify it will work):

1. Restore the FLEx backup on top of the project with the lost data.
2. Send/Receive with FLEx and hope it works out
3. Clean up data if necessary
   

Warm regards,

Christopher Hirt

Team Manager - Thailand

SIL Language Software Development

chris...@sil.org

      

On Tue, Oct 1, 2019 at 4:23 PM Dawut G <daw...@gmail.com> wrote:

I have lost some data in the Language Forge version of the dictionary, but have a Flex backup I can restore. How do I overwrite the Language Forge data with the Flex data? (If I simply do Send and Receive I'm afraid the reverse will happen).

David

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[Dawut G]

Ok that doesn't work, as Flex doesn't allow you to overwrite a dictionary that is used for Send/Receive with a backup. All you can do is make a new project using the backed up data. I did that and copied and pasted some info back into the original dictionary and I think all should now be fine.

Back-story: I just appointed a new dictionary worker, but somehow some Turkmen data got lost. Maybe he deleted the 'citation form' by mistake (thinking there are two lots of entry words). 

David

[Dawut G]

So how do I delete the old (corrupted) project in Language Forge?

Strange problem - I logged into Language Depot and it records no activity for today even though I have made changes and done S/R! Very odd.

David

On Tuesday, 1 October 2019 10:23:45 UTC+1, Dawut G wrote: