Re: [RDD] Bizarre database problem

2018-06-11 Thread Fred Gleason
On Jun 11, 2018, at 07:52, Rob Landry <41001...@interpring.com> wrote: > How does rddbcheck see the files? It just does an open(). Nothing fancy. > Is there something I need to use beyond ls -al to verify that it can see them? That should be all that’s needed. Cheers!

Re: [RDD] Bizarre database problem

2018-06-11 Thread Rob Landry
On Sat, 9 Jun 2018, Cowboy wrote: It's so easy to make a backup immediately before doing anything like that, I can't even begin to tell you how incompetent I felt at that moment, but it does happen even to the best of us. Now that the horse is more or less back in the barn, I've set them up

Re: [RDD] Bizarre database problem

2018-06-11 Thread Rob Landry
On Sat, 9 Jun 2018, Fred Gleason wrote: On Jun 9, 2018, at 11:28, Rob Landry <41001...@interpring.com> wrote: I suggested they might have a database problem and suggested running rddbcheck. That proved to be a spectacularly bad suggestion, as it adjusted the length of every

Re: [RDD] Bizarre database problem

2018-06-09 Thread Fred Gleason
On Jun 9, 2018, at 11:28, Rob Landry <41001...@interpring.com> wrote: > I suggested they might have a database problem and suggested running > rddbcheck. That proved to be a spectacularly bad suggestion, as it adjusted > the length of every audio cut to zero! Not a bad suggestion _per se_,

Re: [RDD] Bizarre database problem

2018-06-09 Thread Cowboy
On Saturday 09 June 2018 11:28:35 am Rob Landry wrote: > That proved to be a spectacularly bad suggestion, as it > adjusted the length of every audio cut to zero! > > They didn't have a recent database backup, That part, I can relate to, unfortunately. ( yeah, the data recovery guy without a

Re: [RDD] Bizarre database problem

2018-06-09 Thread Fred Gleason
On Jun 9, 2018, at 11:28, Rob Landry <41001...@interpring.com> wrote: > I suggested they might have a database problem and suggested running > rddbcheck. That proved to be a spectacularly bad suggestion, as it adjusted > the length of every audio cut to zero! That tells me that the audio store

[RDD] Bizarre database problem

2018-06-09 Thread Rob Landry
A client of mine has been running RD 2.15 for a while on Debian 6. On Thursday, they called me to say they were getting an error when trying to edit markers on audio cuts. I suggested they might have a database problem and suggested running rddbcheck. That proved to be a spectacularly bad