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In a message dated 98-02-09 01:06:33 EST, polaris3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> For my first attempt, I selected ALL the symbols remaining in my portfolio,
> and copied them out to a single
> fileset (3.5 makes 4 files, a .DAT file and 3 others, for each copy
> operation). I then closed the server,
> deleted the .DAT and .IDX files, opened the server again, and attempted to
> paste in the data. The result was
> to simply hang the server, which I had to kill with a 3-finger reset. I
> tried several more times, with the same
> result. The copied data was about 25 megs, and took over 2 hours to make -
> 2 wasted hours as it turns out.
>
> I then restored the original .DAT file from my tape copy, and tried
> selecting a smaller group of sysmbols. By
> experimentation, I found that any copied out file of over about 3 megs is
> unreadable by the server. So I had
> to do the job by creating many small copy sets under different names, and
> then paste them in one by one,
> which meant another 3 hours sitting at the computer. Not a fun way to
spend
> my Sunday!
>
> Surely there ought to be some way to compress the database without all this
> tedious work.
I do this all the time in 3.5. Copy everything out getting the 4 files
mentioned. (Note over 30 megs). Then I delete the Bonn.*, and bonn5.*.
THEN, I move the Dat file from where the copy out was done back to where the
bonn files where and I rename it back to bonn.dat. Then I go into the
offline server, and it automatically rebuilds the bonn.idx. Next I run the
morning update and it builds the bonn5.* files. This should also work in
4.0.
Pete
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