Am Mittwoch 16 Juni 2010 schrieb Michael Schuerig: > On Wednesday 16 June 2010, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Am Mittwoch 16 Juni 2010 schrieb Michael Schuerig: > > > On Wednesday 16 June 2010, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > > > > > Amarok is a different case. It uses an embedded MySQL engine > > > (mysqle) and I haven't found a way to dump that. The upshot? I had > > > to rescan my entire music collection and lost my ratings and > > > statistics in the process. > > > > But not this one. > > > > Maybe you can dump it, if you install a 32 bit - I don't know if a 64 > > bit MySQL will work - MySQL server and put the directory > > I tried to do that on the old machine. Using a MySQL 32-bit *server* to > run with the MySQLe data dir. Didn't work. > > > Maybe there is another command for dumping an MySQL embedded > > database. Did you use a search engine to find something like that? > > I was unable to find anything relevant on the web. I'm using MySQL (if > I can't use PostgreSQL) for software development and these are details > even I am not familiar with, I would expect an ordinary user to have > any idea of them. IMHO thats worth a upstream bug report regarding Amarok. The application should provide a migration path from 32- to 64-bit. Or you can ask on the amarok mailinglist. Hmmm, sooner or later I will face the same problem then. I think I write a short note to Amarok mailing list. -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7
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