Re: Exiftool

On 05/25/08 10:10 pm, William L. Hartzell wrote:
Sir:

Paul Ratcliffe wrote:
On Fri, 23 May 2008 10:08:46 -0700, Marty <net@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

The Warpin database is not hitting a size limitation according to Paul.

Not in WarpIN anyway. The PM side of things is a different matter and is
essentially unfixable.

Since he knows the code, I'm inclined to believe him. There's no
sense wasting time moving to another database if it isn't going to
solve the problem.

It would solve the problem, but you do wonder, if things are this
close to
the edge, how the rest of the system keeps running.
The big question is, which database, how much effort is it going to
take, and
who's going to get upset when they don't like the result of the change?
There are probably a few contenders:
.INI file using XWP Helpers code instead of PM
XML plain text file
SQLite
Something else
Something is stomping on my (system/user) ini files, such that I've been
restoring my January archive about twice per week. It is such that I
cannot reset the desktop using either Xworkplace or WPtools reset WPS
tools without either the Xworkplace displaying a command window or
getting a warning about some problem in the ini. If I get the later, a
three finger salute will save the files so that one can boot the next
time. The former is a restore archive message as there is nothing to do
once it appears. After I restore an archive copy, I can run checkini to
fix for changes since January, but half the time I immediately get the
Minimized Windows icon on the desktop that won't go away, which means
the ini is hosed. Assuming that I get past the checkini run, Warpin will
not work, giving either the cannot open database error, or the
appearing/disappearing window symptom. Both can be fixed by renaming the
database file, but at the cost of no history. About once every six or so
restore archive passes, the original database file reads okay and I can
use it for a few installs. Then it is back to one of the above problems.
By now I am pissed entirely at the whole mess. I just don't see why the
'require' function in Warpin does not use something like a DOS find
first/next file and search the drives before balking over the
prerequisite, if it is really that important. Especially since many of
these prerequisites can/should be installed from Zip files. For example
the Perl port by Paul S., which he issues as a zip file, and is the
prerequisite for the subject of this thread. Restoring so often does
mean that no new program that been issued since January has icon/program
folders/config.sys/ini entries. So the only programs that are
preexisting has gotten new/updated code used.

Take right now, I have 64 MiB in shared memory, max. of 118 MiB in
private memory (system)--total ram used by private is 187 MiB, and 260
MiB of free ram. Warpin does not want to use the original database (and
yes, it is the one which Paul R. has seen). I just don't have this
problem on my eCS volume (so it is not the machine). But then I've not
installed all (any) the application updates from the past year or two
onto it, the ones that need their dlls be loaded by the system (ie.
Xworkplace, WPSwizard, Cairo, Dragtext, Doodle's Screen saver, etc.).
BTW, the ini corruption shows as duplicate drives, sometimes several
copies of the same set of drives or parts thereof. Know this as I can
start Xfix from the command windows that appears when the ini are
irreparably damage. Plus, the index or whatever is used is off by one or
more between the label and the handle; checkini will delete the entire
file as handle/object not found.

I had bad luck with WPSwizard, WPS crashing, system crashing so I uninstalled it (actually reverted to a backup made just before installing). I'd suggest trying to uninstall or better yet restoring *ini from just before you installed.
Dave
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