> > Terry wrote:
> >> The thing is that Grass63 doesn't see anything when I point
> >> it at the old dataset directory, so none of the mapsets are
> >> available.
Hamish:
> > is your current user account the filesystem owner of the mapsets?
Terry:
> Yes. Both the NC sample data dir and my old data dir are on
> the same drive and owned by me. Grass63 (and now Grass64)
> both see the NC sample dataset but not my old dataset.
> Curiously, if I select the old dataset dir and try to create
> a new location with the name of the existing location, Grass
> complains that it can't do so as "...location already
> exists", but it won't show it in the startup window.
>
> I will leave this percolate for a while and hopefully see
> another way of looking at the problem.
has it passed through a removable hard drive though? sometimes
if one of those uses FAT32 it can lowercase all the filenames,
and then the program can't find PERMANENT, WIND, PROJ_INFO files,
etc. due to case sensitivity.
Hamish
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