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Support / Re: Data Missing?
« on: April 02, 2013, 02:23:12 am »
I came here because this same thing happened to me today. All of a sudden the database disappeared following an application error in PVD.
I had watched a movie from within PVD and then closed PVD. I then reopened PVD because I wanted to edit a couple of details about the video. There was an application error on opening, and the database showed 0 movies. It was down to 1688kB in size. I hadn't made any backups, but fortunately the crash must have created a movies.pvd.old file which I was able to rename and retrieve all the data.
It was scary. Only 76 videos in there so far, but that'd still be an awful lot of work to have to re-enter.
The .old file is handy, but it might be a nice idea to see if it could be possible to change the behaviour that seems to make PVD want to create a new database that overwrites the existing one.
I had watched a movie from within PVD and then closed PVD. I then reopened PVD because I wanted to edit a couple of details about the video. There was an application error on opening, and the database showed 0 movies. It was down to 1688kB in size. I hadn't made any backups, but fortunately the crash must have created a movies.pvd.old file which I was able to rename and retrieve all the data.
It was scary. Only 76 videos in there so far, but that'd still be an awful lot of work to have to re-enter.
The .old file is handy, but it might be a nice idea to see if it could be possible to change the behaviour that seems to make PVD want to create a new database that overwrites the existing one.