[VAPP] XML Load Error

[Martin Kloss]

Hi Ruslan,

I just did a XML Dump / Load from VAPP to repair a 700MB
database, which had several corrupt records. I don't know how
on earth these records got corrupted, but the diagnose report
said that a lot of text blobs had orphaned segments and so on.
The result was that the text got displayed as garbage, not very
nice and even deleting the records and creating new records
didn't help,. because the binary space seems to get recycled.

So after my client freaked and shouted and said very bad things
about valentina, I'm now in the process of trying to repair the
database by doing an XML dump and load and then re-inserting
10.000 pictures, because it seems that there is no other way
to repair this database :-(

Anyway, the XML dump took only about 15 minutes on a dual
cpu., 1GB RAM, OS X 10.3.2 machine with VAPP. It worked
fine and produced a gigantic XML file. Subsequently, I tried to
load the XML file, which took the whole night. This morning
VAPP showed an error about a line in the XML file being
"not well formed" (position 0). How can that be?

I don't have another night to load the XML file and I don't
know how to fix the database now. How can a XML file that
has been generated by VAPP cause an error when being
read again with VAPP? I'm very frustrated, time is running
away, my client is pissed and the database is still broken...

Martin.


Martin Kloss

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