ClipMate Support Forum

Hi Support,

I have used Clipmate for many years with very few problems but now appear to have hit a Biggie.

I started getting error messages a few days back but the program was still useable at that stage. One message was:

"Database corruption detected in [myclips DBISAM engine error #9479. The Table 'blobpng' is full and cannot contain any more data - DB_BLOBPNG]. Please restart program and select repair option".

I tried repair options both simple and comprehensive repair and it did not help.

Things have now deteriorated much further.

In case it helped, I uninstalled Clipmate and reinstalled the latest version from the website link.

I have tried to restore from each of 4 stored backup clipmate databases and in each case I get the following message:

"Error logging onto database [C:\users\007007\documents\Clipmate Databases] [DBISAM Engine Error #11010 Table or backup file 'bloppng' does not exist]"

In all four cases when I try to restore from a saved database, what I am left with is seemingly the correct folder structure and clip headings but no clips. The section where the actual clip content should be is blank with "There is nothing to display". If I press on an item Clipmate tells me 'image file failed to convert properly for item' and then a number which changes depending on the item I click on.

As a long-time (well over 10 years) user of the program, I would appreciate help with this major league problem for me, since a day without Clipmate working is a wasted day. I am staring into the abyss here since Clipmate is where I keep thousands of items, including notes for planned books and many many thousands of important clips built up over a considerable period of time.

Cheers,

Declan McHugh

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Creepy Entertainment since 1999

i seem to be having a similar issue less the error messages

i noticed all my clips missing so i restored from backup

all the titles are there but none of teh actual clip info is there
i attempt comprehensive repair and it says 217 of 219 clips are corrupted and will be deleted

i have some info there that is only backed up in these clip databases
what is going on here?

date based bug?!?

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Steve

well i found a very old backup that was intact
so i have for the time being solved my issue,

my issue is probably related to some corrupted folders i found on my usb device as well as several other issues with moving around large chunks of data

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Steve

Hmm. I thought I'd responded to this. I'm glad you're ok.

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I'm the ClipMate Guy!

I"m dealing with the same problem.

Then you'll need to restore from backup, then get rid of enough images to get safely below the 2GB level.

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I'm the ClipMate Guy!

Same here..

Exported database, then restored it, nothing special



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See if you have blobpng.* (.idx, .dat, .blb) backed up on another medium (carbonite, windows backup, windows "restore previous file", etc..) and if so, restore that full set (all 3 files). Then you should be back in business.
If you delete the BlobPNG.* files that you currently have in your database, ClipMate will re-create them on startup, but they'll be empty. You'll have your non-image data though.

I am upgrading the ZIP and DBISAM libraries in the upcoming ClipMate 7.5, which will hopefully prevent this from happening in the future.

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Chris, I solved this one, because I copied the entire Clipmate folder using Explorer, so I simply deleted the corrupted(?) \data folder and copied back the good working \data folder that I just made before I started messing around.

What I did:
-made backup (database maintenance->zip thing)

then started to:
- export lots of clips (mostly images and excel stuff)
- delete the exported clips (reduced nbr of clips from 27k to 13k)
- emptied trashcan
- at one point in time I cud export the entire database to single files
(initially I got this error, remember)
- so that was done.
- closed CM
- launched it
- wanted to restore the database (ex zip), so I would have both the history back and also as a single file).

then I got the error.

have 2 important questions:
a) is there a limit on the number of items in the database and/or database size?

if there is a limit on size/number, then...

b) if I were to create separate collections, like 2009, 2010, 2011 as a subfolder/collection under the inbox and I would then _move_ respective clips to those collections,would that make any difference?

Thank you again!

Clipmate is by far the best clipboard manager, but.. you already know that eh...

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Separating by collection won't save space, but separating into separate databases would help.
I am very interested in seeing your database, to see where the backup fails.
Would you be willing to burn it to DVD and snail mail it to me?

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Hi Chris,

pls accept my sincere apologies for not replying earlier. I was out for a couple of days and -frankly- as all was/is working well, I forgot about the issue...

Anyway, wud suggest to drop the matter as it has been solved/CM is working well.

Thanks again.
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I had this same problem. They way I resolved it was to clean up my
DB ( it was over 2G ) and not to rely on the ZIP DB backups.

Now, I shutdown ClipMate ( would love to see a command line way to do this ) and do a straight "Syncback" copy of the whole CM directory to thumb drive.

Glad to hear that ClipMate will be upgraded to get around this problem.
Thanks Chris!

There is a command-line:

ClipMate Command Line Parameters

• STOP - Halts previously-running instance of ClipMate by sending it a kill message. Useful when using external overnight backup programs.
Must be first and only parameter
ex: ClipMate.exe STOP


All are documented here:
http://www.thornsoft.com/HTML_help/7/in ... ptions.htm

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