[GRASS-user] Problems opening old 6.0.2 workspace in 6.2

GRASS GRASS user
1

Hi!

I recently installed grass version 6.2. Everything works fine except for
opening my old workspaces from version 6.0.2
When I try to open an old workspace I receive this message:

Can't open - /path/to/file.dm - bad file format

Can anyone help me? Or is there a filter/converter for this?

Cheers
Michael

2

There is not a file converter (maybe someone could write one?). There is
some stuff at the beginning of an old *.dm file that needs to be stripped
out for it to be read by the new file format. I can't remember what it is,
but if you make a workspace in the new system and compare the 2 files, it
should be pretty clear. Hope that helps.

Michael

__________________________________________
Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology
School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity
Arizona State University

phone: 480-965-6213
fax: 480-965-7671
www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton

From: Michael Konder <michael@milchsemmel.de>
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2006 15:48:16 +0100
To: <grassuser@grass.itc.it>
Subject: [GRASS-user] Problems opening old 6.0.2 workspace in 6.2

Hi!

I recently installed grass version 6.2. Everything works fine except for
opening my old workspaces from version 6.0.2
When I try to open an old workspace I receive this message:

Can't open - /path/to/file.dm - bad file format

Can anyone help me? Or is there a filter/converter for this?

Cheers
Michael

3

Thanks for the hint.
I managed to get it working by simply deleting the
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Section. The rest nearly worked but I recognized that my Raster-overlays
weren't displayed like before:
Using d.m they were displayed top-down. The top layer was rendered first
and the following ones on top of it. Now it seems to be the other way
round but rearranging didn't take too much time. So its fine.

Thanks
Michael

Michael Barton schrieb:

There is not a file converter (maybe someone could write one?). There is
some stuff at the beginning of an old *.dm file that needs to be stripped
out for it to be read by the new file format. I can't remember what it is,
but if you make a workspace in the new system and compare the 2 files, it
should be pretty clear. Hope that helps.

Michael

__________________________________________
Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology
School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity
Arizona State University

phone: 480-965-6213
fax: 480-965-7671
www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton

From: Michael Konder <michael@milchsemmel.de>
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2006 15:48:16 +0100
To: <grassuser@grass.itc.it>
Subject: [GRASS-user] Problems opening old 6.0.2 workspace in 6.2

Hi!

I recently installed grass version 6.2. Everything works fine except for
opening my old workspaces from version 6.0.2
When I try to open an old workspace I receive this message:

Can't open - /path/to/file.dm - bad file format

Can anyone help me? Or is there a filter/converter for this?

Cheers
Michael