Elenia wrote:Ani wrote:As a by the way, do you ever get database errors in LWT? I have abandoned my projects because a whole pile of words started saying something about there already being an entry for that word. The word stays blue no matter what I try to do with it.
I know this wasn't directed to me, but I have gotten it a couple of times. There was a specific thing that I was doing while creating cards that caused this problem, although I can't quite remember what now. Sorry, I couldn't be of more help!
Pardon the interruption, but I just stumbled on this post by accident.
To answer the OP's question, yes, I do get database errors in LWT. It can be disconcerting, but I find that if I close the text and reopen it, the error resolves itself.
A few weeks ago another error occurred, corrupting the whole database. I did a few things with the phpMyAdmin to no avail. So I attempted using LWT's mechanisms to restore the backup, but the process kept timing out. Luckily LWT is installed on my laptop, so I uploaded the backup there and then copied the data language by language over to my desktop. In retrospect, I should have tried 2 other things first: (1) reinstalling LWT on my desktop and/or (2) exporting the database from the laptop LWT and importing it to the desktop LWT. For the sake of comparison, I have 243534 total terms (words and phrases) from 6 languages. Of those 6 only 4 are currently active.
And, since I am on the subject, I once had nearly 1,000,000 terms (a programming experiment gone awry), which were more terms than the regular backup process could handle. The developer addressed this issue, but beats me where he discussed it. The old HTLAL perhaps. Anyways, unless you plan on studying a dozen or so languages, I doubt you'll ever get close to 1 million terms.