Dropbox sync merges new/backed- logs (yay!) but now 2 divers
Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2017 1:58 am
Long story: After not using MacDive for a year, I prepared for a trip by installing 2.8.2 (under 10.10.5). It ran fine twice and then crashed the computer on disconnecting my Zoop. Subsequent restarts would crash. Installed 2.8.3, same thing. Suspected corrupted MacDive.sqlite file.
Copied everything to a safe place then started from scratch, downloading all new dives from this trip (24 total). Arrived home in one piece but with only the latest 24 dives in the log.
I copied my (new dives) Library/.../MacDive folder to a safe location and then replaced the MacDive.sqlite file with the one copied from Time Machine. 2.8.2 read the file and all the old dives were there. As I had Dropbox sync enabled, all of those dives went to Dropbox, and I presumed they would overwrite the 24 new ones (which were safely copied to a safe place).
Then I installed 2.8.3 and it started up just fine and Dropbox started. I let it go and the next thing I knew, the 24 new dives were added. The Dropbox sync must have done me that favor.
HOWEVER: The only issues I have now is that there are two of me, two Suunto Divers (deleted both), two Suunto Zoop computers (one with 24 dives, one with the others). The cert I added (with images) is there but the images are not.
Somehow Nick's Dropbox cloud sync thing seems to have resolved *almost* everything and I am at a loss to know how. Magic I guess.
Is there a way to merge the two of me and two computers? I have all the original files backed up and can start the merge process from scratch.
Thanks,
--Jeff
(drying out after 2 weeks in Cozumel)
Copied everything to a safe place then started from scratch, downloading all new dives from this trip (24 total). Arrived home in one piece but with only the latest 24 dives in the log.
I copied my (new dives) Library/.../MacDive folder to a safe location and then replaced the MacDive.sqlite file with the one copied from Time Machine. 2.8.2 read the file and all the old dives were there. As I had Dropbox sync enabled, all of those dives went to Dropbox, and I presumed they would overwrite the 24 new ones (which were safely copied to a safe place).
Then I installed 2.8.3 and it started up just fine and Dropbox started. I let it go and the next thing I knew, the 24 new dives were added. The Dropbox sync must have done me that favor.
HOWEVER: The only issues I have now is that there are two of me, two Suunto Divers (deleted both), two Suunto Zoop computers (one with 24 dives, one with the others). The cert I added (with images) is there but the images are not.
Somehow Nick's Dropbox cloud sync thing seems to have resolved *almost* everything and I am at a loss to know how. Magic I guess.
Is there a way to merge the two of me and two computers? I have all the original files backed up and can start the merge process from scratch.
Thanks,
--Jeff
(drying out after 2 weeks in Cozumel)