For simplicity I’d ask for any further comments about Digestive to be posted there please.

Sorry that there hasn’t been much progress or news about Digestive recently. Both the day job and home life have been really hectic and look like staying that way until early January. However, the database manager is now a top priority.

The best way to keep up to date with it would be to check my blog at http://www.ottersoftwareblog.com and possibly subscribe to its RSS feed. I will also mention progress in my @ottersoftware Twitter stream.

Simon

Just tried going back to the emberapp.com link to see about any developments. I don’t remember setting up any notification requests with Ottersoftware. Will those still get pushed out to us when this goes public (alpha, beta, v1.0, anything)?

Looking forward to it.

Regards,
Shane

Yes, the built-in data file selection system will be supported in as much as anything you set as the default data file in it will be picked up via Digestive.

I really need to remove the script because it seems to be causing more problems that it solves these days! Digestive will be out in the next few weeks (definitely before Christmas, probably in November) so if you can hang on a little longer then life should get much easier.

Just wondering, now that Bento 3 allows you to change the default database (hold option while launching), is there likely to be a way to support that in the manager (or in Digestive)?

I tried altering the directory path in your script, but although it appeared to run fine, some strange things happened when creating a new database. This might have been due to the fact that the folder I was specifying was one synced with my iDisk though; it could have been something to do with sync conflicts?

Mark

Mark

One question; how does it work with Bento for iPhone?

What I mean is that presumably I can only sync one database file with the iPhone, so how do I cope with that when using the manager?

I assume I simply set up syncing in one and only one of my database files, and then be careful to only ever sync that, but does Bento store the partnership with the phone in the actual database, or somewhere else such as a plist file? If it’s the former I should be OK, if it’s the latter, maybe not.

Thanks,

Mark

I do not see any way to do this. Does anyone know how to do this? I can’t see using Bento without this option.

I place all my other databases and files on a central server and either replicate or synchronize from this single reference data base out onto other other computers or PDAs. It is easy to backup and restore in this manner also.

If you send an email to simon (at) bentousers.com then I’ll add you to the list of testers.

At least I would like to recover one feature with your Unboxer, and that is being able to swap Library icons.

And here I am trying to export new records and templates out of my Bento 3 db, so that I can try to rebuild them now in Bento 2 since Bento 3 is so bug-ridden. It would be a helluva lot easier if I had your Unboxer and didn’t have to keep manually switching between bento.bentodb files, fearful I’m going to slip up and delete the wrong one and lose my recent data.

I know it’s a lot of hard work, but I sure wish Unboxer would be available soon. It would give me back a little of the excitement I lost after the disappointment of Bento 3.

Thanks,
-Mark