[gme-users] RE: recover GME model files

[Zoltan Molnar]

Did you try with the very same GME installation (same version) you had
on the crashed machine (as Matt suggested)?

Zoli

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shige Wang [mailto:wangsg at eecs.umich.edu] 
> Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 11:07 AM
> To: Zoltan Molnar; Matthew J. Emerson
> Cc: gme-users
> Subject: RE: [gme-users] RE: recover GME model files
> 
> 
> 
> Zoli and Matt,
> 
> Thanks for the reply.
> 
> Since it is hard drive crash on the original development 
> machine, I don't have .mga file with original .mta. I can 
> only manipulate it on a different machine, where the .mga 
> file cannot be opened.
> 
> I was looking a way to automatic reconstruct the meta-model 
> using the .xmp. As the original developer of this meta-model 
> has gone, I'm afraid that I may miss something during manual 
> reconstruction and crash interpreters using it.
> 
> Is there any solution instead of manual reconstruction? Thanks.
> 
> shige
> 
> On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Zoltan Molnar wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > If you have lost you metamodel.xml file but you have the 
> metamodel.mga 
> > file, then all you have to do is to try to open that mga file and 
> > export it again. You should be able to open that .mga file 
> if you did 
> > not reinterpret your metagme paradigm ( <==> the 
> metagme.mta file did 
> > not change
> > recently)
> >
> > If you have only the xmp file, since that is an artifact, it is not 
> > possible to reproduce the metamodel based on that. My 
> suggestion would 
> > be that by using the metamodel.mta (xmp's binary
> > version) or .xmp you can access your existing models, and you can 
> > create new projects also. By opening a model and clicking on the 
> > "Meta" tab in the right hand side browser you can access 
> information 
> > about your metamodel structure.
> >
> > Thus you can recreate your metamodel step by step (and 
> compare to the 
> > old xmp)
> >
> > Regards, Zoli
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Sandeep Neema
> > > Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 2:25 PM
> > > To: Shige Wang
> > > Cc: gme-users
> > > Subject: [gme-users] RE: recover GME model files
> > >
> > >
> > > Shige,
> > > Would be best to post this on the GME-users list (cc'd here)
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Sandeep
> > >
> > > --
> > > Sandeep Neema
> > > Research Scientist,
> > > Institute of Software Integrated Systems, Vanderbilt University
> > > Phone: 615-343-9996
> > > Email: sandeep.k.neema at vanderbilt.edu
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Shige Wang [mailto:wangsg at eecs.umich.edu]
> > > > Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 11:39 AM
> > > > To: Sandeep Neema
> > > > Subject: recover GME model files
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Sandeep,
> > > >
> > > > Sorry have to bother you on this. I will appreciate if you
> > > can help or
> > > > point to anyone who can help on this.
> > > >
> > > > Due to a hard drive crash, we lost one of the most recent GME
> > > meta-model
> > > > file in .xml. Now we only have a backup in .xmp (and
> > > possibly a .mga
> > > > file). Is there any way to recover the meta-model from these 
> > > > files, especially from xmp? Since significant coding have been
> > > done based on
> > > the
> > > > model, it is difficult to recreate the code according to a
> > > new model.
> > > >
> > > > Although this is non-Escher related project, we would like
> > > to get some
> > > > help from ISIS.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks.
> > > >
> > > > shige
> > > >
> > >
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