AllData.gdb

Former Member over 11 years ago

Hello,
I have a big problem. I hope someone can help me.

I was in Africa for 8 months doing research and had my mac with me. I took gps points of a lot of important things for my reaserch and passed them to the computer. I month before I came home my mac shut down. It was the logic board. They managed to save the disc as an external hard drive. My problem is that know I can not open the garmin points that I had before. WhEN I try to open AllData.gdb file with basecamp it says the file is corrupted.

Is there anything I can do to open it. It is months of research and I'm really worried. I'm going to attache the file.

Thank you,

Joana

0 stuartmw over 11 years ago

You don't open (import) the AllData.gdb file in BaseCamp. It is part of many other files forming the BaseCamp database.

Are you saying that when you start BaseCamp you get an error saying that AllData.gdb is corrupt?

BaseCamp does create backups of some files. For example there's probably a AllData.gdb.bak and FoldaerData.gfi.bak so you can try removing the .bak from those and see if BaseCamp will work.

0 stuartmw over 11 years ago

Well it may be possible to recover your database but I'm not a Mac user so I doubt I can help much more.

0 danham_ over 11 years ago

Joana,

It is probable that opening BC on another Mac is why it comes up with no data. You need to copy the program and all of its data and supporting files to the new Mac and try again.

Can you give details about what Mac model and what version of the OS you are using? In some versions of OS X the Garmin maps and data are in a hidden folder, so the instructions on how to find them on the salvaged disk and copy them to the new machine will differ.

-dan

0 Killtimer_ over 11 years ago

The file you want to find will be named xxx.bclibrary and "may" be in "user_Library_Application Support_Garmin_BaseCamp". BaseCamp now allows multiple .bclibrary files to exist in different locations so doing a spotlight search is probably your best bet.

0 danham_ over 11 years ago

On the salvaged drive, look for the Library/Application Support folder in your user directory. It is normally hidden in Mountain Lion, but not on an external hard drive. So if your user account name is joana, open up the salvaged drive and navigate to Users/joana/Library/Application Support. In that folder find one called Garmin. Copy that entire Garmin folder to the desktop of your Macbook Air.

Make sure BaseCamp is not running but is installed on the Air, in the Applications folder.

Now open up the same folder on your Air. But it will be hidden, so use the Go --> Go to Folder menu command in the Finder to go to:

~/Library/Application Support

The tilde (~) tells the command it's looking in your user directory.

Drag the Garmin folder from your desktop into the Application Support folder. Launch BC and your data should be there. If it's not, make sure you placed the Garmin folder in the Library/Application Support folder that resides in your user directory, not the system directory (they are named identically, which can cause confusion).

-dan

0 stuartmw over 11 years ago

I would strongly advise you to make multiple backups of your now recovered BaseCamp database :D

I bet the Mac version has a backup/restore mechanism just as the Windows version does.

0 danham_ over 11 years ago

It worked!
Thank you so much! You saved my research! :p The Chimpanzees of Guinea Bissau say thanks!

Very glad for you and the primates [g].

As stuartmw said, time for solid backups. You could use Time Machine or simply copy the Garmin folder elsewhere or use the backup feature within BC. Or all three.

-dan