Failed to copy database

Question

Hi, I have an ongoing project within OpenLCA, and I make a new version of the working database when there are updates to be made. I attempted to create a new version today by selecting latest database > right click > copy > enter name for new version > OK, but I received a "failed to copy database" error. Interestingly, when I try it again and put in the same name I tried to make previously, it says that a database already exists with that name.

Is there a way to resolve this error? I have tried closing the program and re-attempting the copy.

Answer 1

Hi taramsimps,

It seems that openLCA started to create a copy but failed in the way. It often results with the database name being in the memory but not the database. To solve this, you can open the openLCA-data-1.4 folder and edit the database.json file. You have to remove the following three line:

{

"name": "NAME_OF_THE_DB"

},

I hope this helps.

If you could send us the log file on the day this error happened, it would be awesome as we could fix this issue.

Thanks in advance,

François