Problem opening bz2 database, and problems opening newly downloaded version of mnemosyne

[Amanda]

Hi, I've been using mneumosyne for a few years and have over 10,000 cards (super helpful in med school!) I've had some trouble opening my cards recently though. I tried opening mnemosyne and it kept giving me an error message. I ended up uninstalling it and reinstalling it and this is what pops up when I try to open it now:



I have back-ups saved on an external hard drive, and I was looking through these files to try to figure something out when I found I had saved the application and could open that one (it's from 2010). I did so delightedly but it seems to automatically start up with my database from 2 months ago in September. I tried to open my back-up from yesterday but it's a bz2 file and when I try to extract it using the Universal Extractor it gives me this message:



Did I just lose 2 months of data? (I also have a ".CARDS" version that seems to have been up-dated yesterday, but it's 1,200 KB and the ".CARDS" back up from 2 months ago is 57,00 KB so I'm wondering if it's any good.. and I can't seem to import or open it in the 2010 application). And if I did lose that data, am I also now stuck using a 2010 version of mnemosyne? I can't seem to be able to get an up-dated version to open.

Sorry I seemed to have somehow made quite a mess of this. I'd really appreciate any help, I really enjoy this style of learning. Thanks,

Amanda

[Amanda]

Sorry, I did screenshots of the error messages since they wouldn't let me copy and paste them and it was a lot to type. Tried copy and pasting in my previous message but that didn't work. I've attached them

[Gnome]

From looking at the first error message it seems like the backup directory is write protected and mnemosyne could not make a media directory required.

To find out what version of mnemosyne your running click Help>about.

To check if your running 

[Peter Bienstman]

Hi,

Bz2 files were the backup files of Mnemosyne 1.x. In Mnemosye 2.x,
backup files are *.db files in the 'backups' subfolder of your
database, and you can just restore them using 'file - open' inside
Mnemosyne.

Mnemosyne by default loads the last database you used, so probably all
you have to do is reopen your regular database (not even a backup).
Typically this is in C:\users\Amanda\App
Data\roaming\Mnemosyne\default.db (The directory is hidden, so you
might need to tell Windows to show hidden files).

Cheers,

Peter

Quoting Amanda <aam...@gmail.com>:

> Sorry, I did screenshots of the error messages since they wouldn't let me
> copy and paste them and it was a lot to type. Tried copy and pasting in my
> previous message but that didn't work. I've attached them
>
> On Tuesday, November 19, 2013 12:36:34 AM UTC-5, Amanda wrote:
>>
>> Hi, I've been using mneumosyne for a few years and have over 10,000 cards
>> (super helpful in med school!) I've had some trouble opening my cards
>> recently though. I tried opening mnemosyne and it kept giving me an error
>> message. I ended up uninstalling it and reinstalling it and this is what
>> pops up when I try to open it now:
>>
>>
>>

>> I have back-ups saved on an external hard drive, and I was looking through
>> these files to try to figure something out when I found I had saved the
>> application and could open that one (it's from 2010). I did so delightedly
>> but it seems to automatically start up with my database from 2 months ago
>> in September. I tried to open my back-up from yesterday but it's a bz2 file
>> and when I try to extract it using the Universal Extractor it gives me this
>> message:
>>
>>
>>

>> Did I just lose 2 months of data? (I also have a ".CARDS" version that
>> seems to have been up-dated yesterday, but it's 1,200 KB and the ".CARDS"
>> back up from 2 months ago is 57,00 KB so I'm wondering if it's any good..
>> and I can't seem to import or open it in the 2010 application). And if I
>> did lose that data, am I also now stuck using a 2010 version of mnemosyne?
>> I can't seem to be able to get an up-dated version to open.
>>
>> Sorry I seemed to have somehow made quite a mess of this. I'd really
>> appreciate any help, I really enjoy this style of learning. Thanks,
>>
>> Amanda
>>
>

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[Amanda]

Thanks for the advice,

I followed the steps, told windows to show the hidden files, found the mnemosyne folder at the location you suggested looking in, but the only default.db folder is default.db_media and it's empty. I've attached a screen shot of the mnemosyne folder to show my options. Did I somehow install it wrong? Thanks again for the help

Amanda

[Peter Bienstman]

I'm not talking about a directory, just do 'file - open' and pick the
file 'default.db' you've found in your screenshot.

Cheers,

Peter

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[Amanda]

So the current application won't open, which means I can't click "file - open"

On my external hard drive I have an application that I guess I must have saved a few years ago (I don't even really know how I did that) but when I open that one and try to do "file - open" it will only let me open .mem databases. (Clicking the "Help - about" showed me it's version 1.2.2)

So basically I guess my problem now is I don't know how to get a current version of the application to open so that I can open the automatically saved database that you helped me find (I've already tried uninstalling mnemosyne and re-downloading it from the website, and the same error message I posted in my first post still appears)

Thanks again!

[Peter Bienstman]

Delete the file 'config' in your Mnemosyne data directory and start again.

(This will no longer be necessary in 2.3)

Cheers,

Peter

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