[BBD] IMATCH6_LOG_MIGRATE.TXT showing up recently

[lbo]

Hi,

likely that's no critical error but "unexpected" therefore on-topic in this board:

On my fresh IMatch install on a new PC with new database I observe that a file IMATCH6_LOG_MIGRATE.TXT is created on every startup of IMatch even before a database is loaded.

It seems to be unexpected according to this posting:

The migrate log is created when IMatch migrates a database. It's probably old? How often do you clean the temp folder 

jch2103 also found this file being freshly created:

Also, what is 'IMATCH6_LOG_MIGRATE.TXT'? I don't recall seeing it in %temp% before.

Maybe this snippet from my log helps:

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04.05 14:18:59+    0 [1D00] 00  M>   >  2 CIMMigrator::CheckMigration  'g:\v\develop\imatch5\src\imatchng\immigrator.cpp(126)'
04.05 14:18:59+    0 [1D00] 02  I>   MIR: CheckMigration for: 2019.2.4 to 2019.2.4
04.05 14:18:59+    0 [1D00] 00  M>    >  3 CIMMigrator::Migrate_to_2018  'g:\v\develop\imatch5\src\imatchng\immigrator.cpp(506)'
04.05 14:18:59+    0 [1D00] 02  I>    Migrating IMatch to generation 2018.
04.05 14:18:59+    0 [1D00] 00  M>    <  3 CIMMigrator::Migrate_to_2018


Especially "CheckMigration for: 2019.2.4 to 2019.2.4"

Oliver

[Mario]

That's normal.
The log will contain other data for later versions, depending on if and what is to migrate, the starting IMatch version, the IMatch version that has created the database.

It#s part of the database boot process. I have forgotten about that but of course this is righteous and correct.
Not all users upgrade each version, many skip updates for months. Or upgrade from IMatch 5 to IMatch 2019. Or from IMatch 2017 or 2018. IMatch handles all that automatically during a migration and check phase, and writes this log in case something goes wrong. Then the user will see a message and can send me the migration log file.

The log is not automatically deleted but overwritten on every start.
This is a small file in your TEMP folder. Windows will clean your temp folder automatically. No need to worry.

[lbo]

Thanks for the clarification.

I don't worry about the file, it was just your posting making me double check that everything is as expected.