At 19:41 -0600 1/22/05, Bagus wrote:
> According to the help message, the --type option is for specifying the
table type that you want to convert the tables *to*. So it should be
--type=MyISAM, I think.
You could also execute this statement for each table that you want to
convert:
ALTER TABLE tbl_name ENGINE=MyISAM;
Both of these led to a similar error: Can't find editors.MYI.
Hmm. Perhaps your server doesn't have support for ISAM compiled in.
What does the output of SHOW ENGINES indicate about the ISAM storage
engine? If it says NO, it won't be able to read ISAM tables at all.
You'll need to find another server that does support ISAM.
So I guess I need to change the subject to:
HELP! I can't access my old tables!
or
Didn't find any fields in table.
or something.
Any ideas? Anyone: I have one database that I'd like to recover.
The database had 5 tables in it.
Each one had three files associated with it, ie editors.ISD, editors.ISM and
editors.frm. I have access to the files, but not the old server that ran the
old version of mysql.
I copied them into /usr/local/mysql/data/BagusDatabase
I made sure the permissions were the same as my test directory that was
created on install... ie mysql owns everything.
When entering the command mysql> use BagusDatabase;
mysql reports that:
Didn't find any fields in table 'editors'
How can I get my old tables into my new database?
Thanks,
Bagus
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul DuBois [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 10:58 PM
To: Bagus; mysql@lists.mysql.com
Subject: Re: isam to myisam
At 22:46 -0600 1/20/05, Bagus wrote:
>Hi there,
>
>I'm running Freebsd 5.3 and just installed
>mysql-standard-4.1.9-unknown-freebsd4.7-i386. I'm able to run mysqld and
>mysql, etc. I used to run Freebsd 2.2 and I think it was mysql
3.21.33b...
>I'm not sure. My old system faded away rather abruptly and I didn't get a
>chance to do database backups or anything.
>
>I have one database that I'd like to recover. The database had 5
tables in
>it. Each one had three files associated with it, ie editors.ISD,
editors.ISM
>and editors.frm. I have access to the tables but can't load them
into my new
>mysql. I copied them into /usr/local/mysql/data/BagusDatabase
and made sure
>the permissions were the same as my test directory.
>
>I have been reading around and thought I came across the answer with the
>mysql_convert_table_format script. I tried changing into my new
>BagusDatabase directory and running:
>mysql_convert_table_format --user='root' --password='mypassword'
--type='ISA
>M' BagusDatabase
According to the help message, the --type option is for specifying the
table type that you want to convert the tables *to*. So it should be
--type=MyISAM, I think.
You could also execute this statement for each table that you want to
convert:
ALTER TABLE tbl_name ENGINE=MyISAM;
>
>The script then reports:
>Converting tables:
>converting editors
>Can't convert editors: Error Can't find file: 'editors.MYI' (errno: 2)
>
>I bet this is old hat for some of you out there. Can someone
help me figure
>out how to recreate my database?
>
>Thanks,
>
> >Bagus
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