Moved Database

Question

So I created a new folder on a network drive, then moved the location of where the database saves by amending the ini file to that network drive. I then copied the "databases" folder from the C:/users folder to that folder on the network drive. Yet when I start openLCA the navigation page is empty. New database will allow me to add a database but an error message pops up saying it already exists. Restore doesn't do anything as I can't find a zolca file in my database.

I need to move the database from my hard-drive as I have very little space left. How do I get openLCA to see the database I've already created?

Answer 1

Hi Mark,

when you create a new database in openLCA, does it appear on your external drive? And can you work with it normally?

Did you move all your databases or only a selection?

If the connection is not slow, putting databases on a different, also external location works. As a workaround, you could create a backup database from your "old" database (in the old location), which creates the zolca file (using the old / default ini settings), then change the ini to the new location on the external disc, and restore the database there.

Hth, Andreas

Comments

The work around seems to have worked!!! Thanks