larryalk Posted October 12, 2008 Share Posted October 12, 2008 How can I view the backup files created by my dealer from Composer?What format are the backup files stored in? Xml. compressed xml or whatever?Larryalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K&J Posted October 13, 2008 Share Posted October 13, 2008 Do you have HE? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larryalk Posted October 13, 2008 Author Share Posted October 13, 2008 Hello K&J.I don't have HE as yet. Will that help me to view the backup file?Do you know what format the backup file is in?Larry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thecodeman Posted October 13, 2008 Share Posted October 13, 2008 Project files are stored as .c4p, playlists are xml files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slemay Posted October 14, 2008 Share Posted October 14, 2008 The entire project is just a ZIP file (rename the extension) and you'll be able to open it. It's all text files - so they are viewable in NOTEPAD. Composer HE will be able to open up the backups - BUT - be careful, as it's going to automatically restore them too!!! Meaning it'll overwrite your current project. The "virtual" session is an option only available (I believe) in Composer Pro (the installers version). So if you want to look at a backup - make a backup of your current project FIRST - then load the backup over the current project. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larryalk Posted October 18, 2008 Author Share Posted October 18, 2008 Thanks to codeman and slemay for giving me a better insight into c4p backup files.After changing the extension to zip I easily opened them and gotan images subdirectory, mm.db and project.xml.The images/album directory opens into a whole bunch of tar files which seem to be album art. Maybe other things also - I only opened one and got 4 sizes of Jethro Tull covers.The project.xml file opened with oowriter and contains lines of ascii describing the codeof the project.I haven't figured yet how to deal with mm.db but using less it appears to containa lot of code interspaced with ascii.I'll probably have to get HE to go further but the contents of the c4p file give me some info on what's going on. Can you tell I'm a programmer <g>?Larry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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