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ballen

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Can't Restore Library From Backup
« on: July 27, 2003, 10:25:02 am »

Anyone have any idea why I'm receiving this error message while trying to restore my library from MJ's backup zip file.

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Critical error: Media Jukebox failed to open the database file "playlistx.jmd" for saving.  (a file could be read-only or corrupt).


I receive this multiple times in an "ok" dialog box.


Your help is appreciated,

Blair


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Re: Can't Restore Library From Backup
« Reply #1 on: July 27, 2003, 11:24:02 am »

My Guess:

it may have been backed up with an older version of MJ
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Re: Can't Restore Library From Backup
« Reply #2 on: July 28, 2003, 08:42:50 am »

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My Guess:

it may have been backed up with an older version of MJ


Not in this case.  I'm using MJ 8.0.399 which I've had since its' release and the backup I was trying to restore was from this version.

PIII 733mhz./392meg RAM
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Re: Can't Restore Library From Backup
« Reply #3 on: July 28, 2003, 09:24:17 am »

I sugest you re-import.

you might can open the Ziped backup and replace each of the data files in there with the ones in the data dir

then re-start MJ8
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Re: Can't Restore Library From Backup
« Reply #4 on: July 28, 2003, 01:32:42 pm »

ballen...

Here's a shot in the dark. Rather than use MJ's Restore, create two directories (temp-orig and temp-ext). Copy your current Media Jukebox\Data and all it's sub's into the temp-orig dir. Now use WinZip to open MJ's backup zip file. Extract the contents (should be just jmd's...uncheck the "use folder names" option in WinZip) into temp-ext. Make sure MJ isn't running. Now just copy the extracted files from temp-ext over top of the existing files in Media Jukebox\Data. Now run MJ. What happens?

Note: WinZip 8.1 (at least) has the ability to look for errors in the zip. Function is Actions>Test. Try it before you extract.

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Re: Can't Restore Library From Backup
« Reply #5 on: July 28, 2003, 05:19:44 pm »

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Note: WinZip 8.1 (at least) has the ability to look for errors in the zip.


by the way winzip 9.0 beta is out
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