Mnemosyne backup file how to import

[Scoobyqueen]

I lost one of my mnemosyne files but have found it in the backup directory. The extension is called xml.bz2. This is what I understood the instructions to be: to rename the file to have the extension xml and then import it. But Mnemosyne won't let me import the file this way.

Anyone else encountered this problem?

[querido]

Did you know... that's a compressed file?

On Windows I would use 7zip to decompress it. That would output the xyz.xml.

[renzhe]

bz2 is a compression format, similar to .zip. It's pretty much the standard way to compress things under Linux (Zip format uses patented algorithms).

You probably need to unpack the xml file using a compression program which understands it, maybe this one: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/bzip2.htm

[aristotle1990]

Or just IZArc.

[Scoobyqueen]

Thanks for the responses. It worked. I used the link provided by renzhe. Mnemosyne presupposes knowledge which may not necessarily be obvious to even the most initiated nerd - my first port of call was my software engineering husband but he couldn't solve it either, but he highly recommended the source forge net lot when he saw mnemosyne was created by them.

[renzhe]

I thinks that the hidden backup function is not really meant to be used often by end-users, but is a last-resort type thing when everything goes to hell. At least, in that case, it is still possible to recover your data.

Most open source software developers are Linux-centric, and bz2 is the format of choice there, and was probably the easiest things for the developers to use in this case (using Zip is legally problematic).

Glad that it worked for you!