Request for creating minimal DB to use.

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. I created a subset of DB.ini on server for intranet on shared cache folder
2. I configured the client's config.ini to point to server cache
3. ran appsnapgui.exe and the db.ini file on server cache grew to old
version and the appsnapgui had full list not my custom list of only the
software I want to see.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?  I expected to see a
list of only the apps I want not a huge list of everything.  I saw full
list of apps.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Version 1.33 on Win. Vista SP2 (x86) ; win server 2003 R2

Please provide any additional information below.
I just want to be able to use my own custom install list and not see all
these other apps.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by heathlan...@gmail.com on 9 Oct 2009 at 2:32

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Hello Heath,
Hope you didn't lose your modified db.ini.

Looks like a nice bug you caught. The way AppSnap works is to copy its local 
db.ini
to the cache. This is so that you can have one master copy that you can 
distribute to
clients. However, clients will also copy their db.ini to the cache, overwriting 
your
changes.

Will have to add code to fix this but meanwhile, what you could do is maintain 
your
db.ini in a separate location than the cache folder and point clients to that
location in the config.ini 'location' parameter. Next, you can update your 
clients to
load this custom db.ini. Will be a few manual steps but at least you can get it 
to work.

Hope that helps.

Original comment by ganesh...@gmail.com on 9 Oct 2009 at 6:17

• Changed state: Accepted

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I moved my custom DB to another location on the server and changed the pointer 
but it
still will recreate the DB.ini on the shared cache folder.  Any other 
suggestions. 
I've attached my config.ini.  I've tested a lot of settings trying to get it to 
work
how I want it to...

Original comment by heathlan...@gmail.com on 9 Oct 2009 at 8:04

Attachments:

• config.ini

[GoogleCodeExporter]

AppSnap still loads db.ini from it's local folder. You need to run an update 
first on each client to get the 
custom db on the client. Then it will work fine. 

For your purposes, ignore the copy of db.ini in the shared cache. Until I fix 
this bug, it is useless.  

Original comment by ganesh...@gmail.com on 12 Oct 2009 at 2:21

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How do I run that "update"?  

I'm currently only testing the client on my workstation.  I put my custom 
"db.ini"
file in the "C:\Program Files\AppSnap" directory where it is installed on my
workstation.  The custom "db.ini" file is also on the shared_cache folder on the
server as well.  When I run the appsnap -l or the appsnap gui it list many 
apps.  I
also tried copying my custom "db.ini" and using "userdb.ini" and it still loads 
all
those extra apps.  

Original comment by heathlan...@gmail.com on 12 Oct 2009 at 3:13

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I reinstalled it and swapped db.ini before running the app the first time and it
seems to work.

Original comment by heathlan...@gmail.com on 12 Oct 2009 at 4:12