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Exporting and importing in Galileo does not work? [message #483332]

Tue, 01 September 2009 08:05

Jeffrey Zelt

Messages: 17
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

Hi,

In order to try to fix a problem where Mylyn opens multiple editor
windows for the same resource, I decided to export all of my tasks and
then import them again using:

Export --> Tasks --> Task List and Contexts
Import --> Tasks --> Task List and Contexts

The export and import takes a *long* time (many minutes). That alone
seems to be a bug, but that could be the subject of another posting :-)

My problem is that after I import the file I just exported, many of the
queries and some of the categories are GONE!

In particular, everything to do with the JIRA task repository I have
been using for the past 6 months is gone! I have checked the zip file
that was created by the export and it does contain many of the JIRA
issues that I have been working on, so for some reason this data is not
imported again by Mylyn.

It does not seem that the export/import facility is working correctly.

Is this a known bug?

Regards,
Jeffrey

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Re: Exporting and importing in Galileo does not work? [message #483538 is a reply to message #483332]

Tue, 01 September 2009 23:43

Steffen Pingel

Messages: 706
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Jeffrey Zelt wrote:

> Hi,
>
> In order to try to fix a problem where Mylyn opens multiple editor
> windows for the same resource, I decided to export all of my tasks and
> then import them again using:
>
> Export --> Tasks --> Task List and Contexts
> Import --> Tasks --> Task List and Contexts
>
> The export and import takes a *long* time (many minutes). That alone
> seems to be a bug, but that could be the subject of another posting :-)
>
> My problem is that after I import the file I just exported, many of the
> queries and some of the categories are GONE!
>
> In particular, everything to do with the JIRA task repository I have
> been using for the past 6 months is gone! I have checked the zip file
> that was created by the export and it does contain many of the JIRA
> issues that I have been working on, so for some reason this data is not
> imported again by Mylyn.
>
> It does not seem that the export/import facility is working correctly.
>
> Is this a known bug?

Please go ahead and file a new bug report and include any hints you have
that could help to reproduce the problem.

We can look into the performance problem but I am not sure if much can be
done besides improving the progress reporting and using larger buffers. My
backup of the entire task list ended up being about 200 MB in size which
takes a while to process.

Steffen

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Re: Exporting and importing in Galileo does not work? [message #483559 is a reply to message #483538]

Wed, 02 September 2009 06:24

Jeffrey Zelt

Messages: 17
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

OK, I will file a bug report.

My exported task list was 31MB and it probably took a good 15 minutes to
create/export. There was a progress bar only for the last 20 seconds or
so (I didn't note these times accurately) - there was no indication of
progress during the rest of the time.

Regards,
Jeffrey

Steffen Pingel wrote:
> Jeffrey Zelt wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> In order to try to fix a problem where Mylyn opens multiple editor
>> windows for the same resource, I decided to export all of my tasks and
>> then import them again using:
>>
>> Export --> Tasks --> Task List and Contexts
>> Import --> Tasks --> Task List and Contexts
>>
>> The export and import takes a *long* time (many minutes). That alone
>> seems to be a bug, but that could be the subject of another posting :-)
>>
>> My problem is that after I import the file I just exported, many of the
>> queries and some of the categories are GONE!
>>
>> In particular, everything to do with the JIRA task repository I have
>> been using for the past 6 months is gone! I have checked the zip file
>> that was created by the export and it does contain many of the JIRA
>> issues that I have been working on, so for some reason this data is not
>> imported again by Mylyn.
>>
>> It does not seem that the export/import facility is working correctly.
>>
>> Is this a known bug?
>
> Please go ahead and file a new bug report and include any hints you have
> that could help to reproduce the problem.
>
> We can look into the performance problem but I am not sure if much can be
> done besides improving the progress reporting and using larger buffers. My
> backup of the entire task list ended up being about 200 MB in size which
> takes a while to process.
>
> Steffen
>

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Re: Exporting and importing in Galileo does not work? [message #483822 is a reply to message #483332]

Thu, 03 September 2009 08:44

Mauro Molinari

Messages: 285
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Jeffrey Zelt ha scritto:
> In order to try to fix a problem where Mylyn opens multiple editor
> windows for the same resource, I decided to export all of my tasks and
> then import them again using:
>
> Export --> Tasks --> Task List and Contexts
> Import --> Tasks --> Task List and Contexts

I also had a simlar problem exporting from Ganymede and then importing
in Galileo: many tasks where exported by Ganymede (they were in the
exported ZIP!) but not imported by Galileo.
Missing tasks were both local and Bugzilla ones.

In the end, I gave up.

Mauro.

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Re: Exporting and importing in Galileo does not work? [message #483983 is a reply to message #483822]

Thu, 03 September 2009 20:09

Steffen Pingel

Messages: 706
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Mauro Molinari wrote:

> Jeffrey Zelt ha scritto:
>> In order to try to fix a problem where Mylyn opens multiple editor
>> windows for the same resource, I decided to export all of my tasks and
>> then import them again using:
>>
>> Export --> Tasks --> Task List and Contexts
>> Import --> Tasks --> Task List and Contexts
>
> I also had a simlar problem exporting from Ganymede and then importing
> in Galileo: many tasks where exported by Ganymede (they were in the
> exported ZIP!) but not imported by Galileo.
> Missing tasks were both local and Bugzilla ones.
>
> In the end, I gave up.
>
> Mauro.

The import/export implementation has been rewritten for Galileo and now
makes a full backup of the .mylyn folder to support migrating between
workspaces.

Jeffrey has filed this bug to track the specific problem he was experiencing
in Galileo:

288448: Importing exported task file in Galileo does not re-import all tasks
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=288448

Steffen

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Committer, http://eclipse.org/mylyn
Senior Developer, http://tasktop.com

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