[GLLUG] Reading/converting unknown database file

[John Southern]

Is the Collectorz in the same format as CLZ? if so the there is a
decompressor at https://github.com/sukharah/CLZ-Compression

Regards
John

On Wed, 25 Sept 2024 at 10:12, Carles Pina i Estany via GLLUG <
gllug at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> On 24 Sep 2024 at 12:37:24, Henrik Morsing via GLLUG wrote:
>
> > I have used Collectorz software for cataloguing, but they are moving
> > away from their totally awesome thick client to a crappy web-based
> > thing, so I started writing my own replacement in Python.
> >
> > Problem is that populating the Collectorz catalogue has taken years,
> > so I was hoping I could read or convert its database file, however, it
> > appears to be in a totally unknown format.
>
> Perhaps try "file Backup_20240915.muc" to see if it says something
> generic (binary file) or some format name...
>
> I don't have much hope, but easy to try!
>
> Also, try with the backup as you did and also looking at the saved data
> (perhaps it has two formats, and one is more standard than the other
> one!).
>
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