Re: Bug in JmdictDB interface (Was: [edict-jmdict] Policy about stars)

[Stuart McGraw <smcg4191@********>]

On 06/11/2012 10:20 PM, Jim Breen wrote:
> On 12 June 2012 13:53, Stuart McGraw <smcg4191@frii.com> wrote:
>> On 06/11/2012 09:36 PM, Jim Breen wrote:
> 
>>> I wonder if there is a way of analyzing the logs to see which may have
>>> been dropped.
>>
>> Unfortunately the logs don't say anything about xrefs
>> since xrefs are never explicitly deleted -- they go away
>> when one of the entries they are attached to goes away.
>> One of the changes I intend to make is to log what xrefs
>> are on an entry instance when it is added to the database
>> (recall that every edit results in the addition on a new
>> entry instance to the database)
>>
>> If you have some older versions of the jmdict xml file, we
>> could compare the xrefs in them with what is in the database
>> now and investigate the differences.
> 
> Apart from the pre-cutover copy of mid-2010 I only have one from
> April this year.
> 
> What I do have is the day-by-day diffs of the EDICT2 files at
> http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/edictdiffs/   For example
> the latest is http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/edictdiffs/edictdiffs2012-06-12.html

That sound workable.  But if there is any problem with
I was wondering if you might have the xml files in your
backups?  I found several in my backups here but only
a few since I don't download it very often.