Actually, I was thinking more of creating separate user accounts on the computer for each version of the database. .Mac would treat them as separate databases.
-- Matthew Smith On Tuesday, December 18, 2007, at 10:41AM, "Rhet Turnbull" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I strongly suspect that .Mac would get very confused if the contents >of the databases varied much. Presumably what Matthew suggested would >go something like this: sync the Yj database to .Mac. Disable syncing >and replace the Yj database with one of the other versions. Re-enable >syncing and sync to .Mac again. If you do this, .Mac may think that >items not in the new database were deleted and also delete them >from .Mac instead of merging them. You can probably tell the .Mac >sync service to merge the .Mac and local version but I think this is >risky, especially if the databases are large. > >Then again, messing the with the raw sqlite databases is even riskier >since you don't know anything about Yojimbo's internal data schema. >A quick peek at the database using sqlite databrowser ( http:// >sqlitebrowser.sourceforge.net/) shows that the schema is non-trivial >and I sure wouldn't want to mess with it! > >The easiest way to do this is to export all the contents in Yojimbo >then swamp databases and import everything back into Yojimbo. This >is pretty easy to do: Select the library collection, select >everything in the Library (Cmd-A), select File | Export and export >them to a new folder. Then swap databases, and select File | Import >in Yojimbo and re-import everything. The downside is that you'll >lose all metadata when you do this: e.g. tags, collections, labels, >flags; also encrypted items will be decrypted for export so you'll >have to re-encrypt them. > >Whatever you do, make sure you backup all the Yj databases before you >begin! > >Cheers, >Rhet > >On Dec 17, 2007, at 5:15 PM, Matthew Smith wrote: > >> If you have a .Mac account you could use its syncing capability to >> do this. >> >> -- >> Matthew Smith >> >> >> On Tuesday, December 18, 2007, at 04:22AM, "Jacob Lyles" >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> >>> RE: ~/Library/Application Support/Yojimbo/Database.sqlite file >>> >>> >>> Anyone have a way to merge several of these into one (working) >>> Yojimbo DB? >>> >>> I have several backed up versions which have different contents >>> and I'd like >>> to unify them. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Jacob >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to >>> the mailing list <[email protected]>. >>> To unsubscribe, send mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> List archives: <http://www.listsearch.com/yojimbotalk.lasso> >>> Have a feature request, or not sure if the software's working >>> correctly? Please send mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> >>> >> >> -- >> ------------------------------------------------------------------ >> This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to >> the mailing list <[email protected]>. >> To unsubscribe, send mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> List archives: <http://www.listsearch.com/yojimbotalk.lasso> >> Have a feature request, or not sure if the software's working >> correctly? Please send mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >-- >------------------------------------------------------------------ >This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list <[email protected]>. >To unsubscribe, send mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >List archives: <http://www.listsearch.com/yojimbotalk.lasso> >Have a feature request, or not sure if the software's working >correctly? Please send mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[email protected]>. To unsubscribe, send mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List archives: <http://www.listsearch.com/yojimbotalk.lasso> Have a feature request, or not sure if the software's working correctly? Please send mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
