Anantha Padmanabha N. Srirama wrote:
>
> I have had a couple of instances where due to a bad line (or record)
> in the .bbdb file BBDB gets completely hosed. This has caused a lot
> of pain for me in the last couple of weeks. Can BBDB be made a little
> more robust so that it will just ignore the record in question and
> go on. I had to go and re-enter the data all over again twice due to
> this behavior.
Seems to me that "robust" and just ignoring trashed records are exact
opposites. If something in the .bbdb file is trashed, there's a time bomb
waiting to go off. The sooner you know, the better.
I've never seen a record in the .bbdb file get trashed; I have occasionally
seen .bbdb files where the records had gotten misordered, but I've never seen
a reproducible test case. Most (but not all) of the times this has happened,
it has been because the .bbdb file was edited by hand, or by code that I
didn't write that made incorrect assumptions about the ordering requirements.
-- Jamie
