Retriving a PT2 databse into new PT3

[DRedstone]

OK.

History. My computer monitor has busted (an expensive bad beat) and its in the shop. So I'm using the shop replacment and trying to rebuild everything again.
Was running PT2 on MY computer running a postgresSQL darabase for a couple of month.
From MY computer I copied postgresSQL folder to my HD.
Am having a little problems installing postgresSAL on the replacement computer (problem is in the Service page - when I leave as is, the application says that the account does not exist and ask if I like to create it. After that I can't seem to connect from PT2)
Today I just bought PT3 (haven't installed it yet)
Have been playing the last few days with an older OBDC data base and importing into all new hands into it
What will be the easiest way for me to have my entire database on PT3.

Thanks

Danny

[ptrack pat]

After that I can't seem to connect from PT2)

Why can't you connect? Does it give an error? If it does, then what is it exactly?

[DRedstone]

I get error 1 when trying to go to PostgresSQL database options..

can not connect....

Also, in my data folder I can't find any file that looks like a database, though my data folder is big enough so it should be there somewhere

Do I need to convert my PT database to postgresSQL in order to convert it to PT3 format?

Which PT3 version should I download, with or w/o postgres?

[ptrack pat]

You cant' just reinstall PostgreSQL and expect to find the database like this, it's not that simple.

Install this version of PostgreSQL
http://wwwmaster.postgresql.org/downloa ... .2.6-2.zip

Then see this post to try to have it use the old data folder...
archives/PT2/viewtopic.php?t=11675

If you can get this working again then you can install the version of PT3 WITHOUT PostgreSQL.

[DRedstone]

Yeah, tried all of that.

Will try again.

So bottom line is I have to have PT2 database in postgresSQL before being able to convert it to PT3 database?

How about just importing all 250k hands, is there an opttion in PT3 to do a huge hand import and let it work over night or something?

[ptrack pat]

If you still have all your hand history files then yes, you could just reimport them all into PT3. It's much faster to import than PT2, it won't take nearly that long.

[DRedstone]

cool, so I'll just do that.

Any tips before downloading and installing PT3?

[ptrack pat]

I would recommend then to download the version of PT3 WITH PostgreSQL so that it installs the latest (8.3) on your computer.