[libreoffice-users] Re: Cannot access my database file!
Andreas, You must not embed images in your embedded database. Any form with a lt;picture control will try to load the whole field. I think this is the lt;true bug in this affair and it was sitting there ever since. lt;Use a text field with relative links to picture files. lt;Bind a form's picture control to the text field. The pictures will be lt;loaded one by one. Thanks for the info. I believe you are correct, but I do not know what to do now. I am not able to open the table, form or anything to remove the embedded image. Can you help with this? -Greg -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Cannot-access-my-database-file-tp4003433p4003841.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: Cannot access my database file!
For future reference, it's not a good idea to store big binary data, or, imnvho, any binary data, in database tables, certainly not in the hsqldb tables that LO uses as internal. Store names of files not the files themselves. You can get trouser pockets big enough for beach balls, but it's not a great idea. Mark Stanton Mark, I have definitely learned my lesson. Is there a way I can access the database table or form to remove the images? I am not able to get anything to open at all once the DB is opened. Thanks, -Greg -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Cannot-access-my-database-file-tp4003433p4003846.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: Cannot access my database file!
Am 27.08.2012 16:34, hover2gb wrote: Andreas, You must not embed images in your embedded database. Any form with a lt;picture control will try to load the whole field. I think this is the lt;true bug in this affair and it was sitting there ever since. lt;Use a text field with relative links to picture files. lt;Bind a form's picture control to the text field. The pictures will be lt;loaded one by one. Thanks for the info. I believe you are correct, but I do not know what to do now. I am not able to open the table, form or anything to remove the embedded image. Can you help with this? -Greg -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Cannot-access-my-database-file-tp4003433p4003841.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. Try ToolsSQL... ALTER TABLE TableName DROP COLUMN Pics; SHUTDOWN COMPACT; Execute, close and reopen the database document. If this does not help, You can extract the script file out of the document archive, remove all references to that picture column and rebuild the database from script. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: Cannot access my database file!
Try ToolsSQL... ALTER TABLE TableName DROP COLUMN Pics; SHUTDOWN COMPACT; Execute, close and reopen the database document. If this does not help, You can extract the script file out of the document archive, remove all references to that picture column and rebuild the database from script. OK. I cannot even access the Tools/SQL menu without receiving the original error. So I extracted the script file and removed the Image references. Then I can save the script file as whatever I want to call it. But at this point I do not know how to rebuild the database from script as you mentioned above. Can you describe the process? Thanks, -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Cannot-access-my-database-file-tp4003433p4003856.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: Cannot access my database file!
SOLVED - I figured out how to modify the script and then just archive it back into the database with a ZIP program. And it worked. I now have access to all of my data, and everything works perfectly. Thanks, thanks, THANKS! -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Cannot-access-my-database-file-tp4003433p4003865.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Cannot access my database file!
hover2gb wrote: Try ToolsSQL... ALTER TABLE TableName DROP COLUMN Pics; SHUTDOWN COMPACT; Execute, close and reopen the database document. If this does not help, You can extract the script file out of the document archive, remove all references to that picture column and rebuild the database from script. OK. I cannot even access the Tools/SQL menu without receiving the original error. So I extracted the script file and removed the Image references. Then I can save the script file as whatever I want to call it. But at this point I do not know how to rebuild the database from script as you mentioned above. Can you describe the process? Thanks, CREATE CACHED TABLE Table1(ID INTEGER GENERATED BY DEFAULT AS IDENTITY(START WITH 0) NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, Pictures LONGVARBINARY, Words VARCHAR(100), Slang VARCHAR(75)) After removing the image field, the SQL becomes: CREATE CACHED TABLE Table1(ID INTEGER GENERATED BY DEFAULT AS IDENTITY(START WITH 0) NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, Words VARCHAR(100), Slang VARCHAR(75)) This is an example of the SQL for defining a table in the script file. The field containing the images is Pictures, and its field type is LONGVARBINARY. Both of these should be removed from the SQL statement. Remember that this is a list separated by commas. You might need to remove a comma to maintain the list structure. If there is a right parenthesis following it, leave it in place. If you have used Archive Manager (file roller) to extract the script file, you can modify the script file without extracting the file. Hopefully you have already made a copy of the database file and are working with the copy rather than the original. Change the extension of the copy from .odb to .zip. Use Nautilus to browse to the location of the .zip file. Double click it to open file roller. Then double click the database folder in the file roller window. Double click the script file to open it in gedit. Remove the field and its field type and a comma if it follows LONGVARBINARY. Save the file in gedit. When file roller pops up a window about updating the scrip file, click the Update button. You have now changed the database file. Rename the extension to .odb from .zip. Then open this database file to see if it is working properly. --Dan -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: Cannot access my database file!
Am 27.08.2012 18:59, hover2gb wrote: SOLVED - I figured out how to modify the script and then just archive it back into the database with a ZIP program. And it worked. I now have access to all of my data, and everything works perfectly. Thanks, thanks, THANKS! -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Cannot-access-my-database-file-tp4003433p4003865.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. Well done. You did all that with a copy of the original file, didn't you? -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: Cannot access my database file!
You must not embed images in your embedded database. Any form with a picture control will try to load the whole field. I think this is the true bug in this affair and it was sitting there ever since. Use a text field with relative links to picture files. Bind a form's picture control to the text field. The pictures will be loaded one by one. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: Cannot access my database file!
Le 24/08/12 21:34, hover2gb a écrit : Hi, It may help for me to mention that I only added 2 images to the DB before I began having issues. And the images were 1.7MB and 7 MB, so only a total of 8.7MB. I wouldn't think this should create any kind of memory issue No, this shouldn't have corrupted your database on its own, however, I fear you have fallen victim to a bug in the 3.6.0.4 version of LibreOffice which corrupts ODB files after they have been opened in this version and then removes part of the file when that version of LO is closed or the file is saved. Alex -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: Cannot access my database file!
Dan, Thanks. I have just attempted to do everything you mentioned, but it does not seem to help. For what it's worth, I forgot to mention that I am on a MAC, so I access the settings through the Preferences menu, but everything appears the same once inside. I changed all settings to your recommendations, but still received the error. I closed and restarted LO, but still the error. I then altered the various settings up and down but still received the error in all instances. I would like to understand what has happened, so I can access the DB and use images, but if I could at least delete the images (don't know if that is really the problem or not), maybe I could then use the file. -Greg -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Cannot-access-my-database-file-tp4003433p4003445.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: Cannot access my database file!
It may help for me to mention that I only added 2 images to the DB before I began having issues. And the images were 1.7MB and 7 MB, so only a total of 8.7MB. I wouldn't think this should create any kind of memory issue -Greg -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Cannot-access-my-database-file-tp4003433p4003447.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
