On Thursday 24 March 2005 00:06, you wrote: > > Closer? > > Good luck, Steve. > > Hi All and especially Steve > > The good news is that I can create, edit, and use a DB in > Reality_Check from Big_Nate. > > Simply stated it works!!!! > > Thanks Congratulations! > > > But! With all good things comes issues. > > First MySQL DB location issue > I just can not seem to get MySQL to work if I change the > location of the DB which requires changing configuration > settings. Strange.
The databases are in /var/lib/mysql. Where are you changing them to and why would you wish to do this? > > Next OO Issues > Click OO icon -> OO starts -> File -> New -> Connect to > existing DB -> JDBC -> Wrong here. You are connecting to a MySQL database. So it should be: file>new>database>connect to existing databse>mysql Go right to the end of the dialogue and register the database. On the final screen you will be prompted for a name to save the settings you have just created. You have to go through this process _once_ only as you opted to create a _new_ database. Once you have it you then you would not choose File>new but File>open. It will ask you for a password if you checked the password required button in the new db dialogue. > At this point I must enter the > name of the DB, server settings and user name each time > Why? Well OK the DB name but why each time the server > settings and the user name? -> Then the next screen to > appear is to save the DB. Why is one saving a DB here? It isn't saving a database. Your database is saved on another computer. It's saving the info which you just typed in so you don't have to type it in each time. I think it's unfortunate wording. > One may not want to save what one searches for so why is > one saving at this point? -> File -> Exit -> Discard - OO > Stops -> Restart OO -> Immediately one goes into document > recovery because one did not save the previous work. Why? > If one does not want the work why would one want to > recover it? It only saves queries, forms and reports you write. It won't save anything else. No, I think the report recovery is a bug here as this is only a beta. Don't use the beta if this work is important. HTH Steve. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
