Restore asm alias datafile to new location extension dbf

Hi All,
I have to restore prod database to test database,But in prod one datafile is created with the asm alias.
Example:+DATA1/prod/datafile/data.318.799151641
Is the below statement will works when I restore in test.
set newname for datafile 5 to '+DATA1/prod/datafile/data01.dbf'
restore datafile 5;
Is there any other work around to restore the asm alias to new location with dbf extension.
Thanks

Restore completed successfully.The below command worked.
set newname for datafile '+DATA1/prod/datafile/data.318.799151641' to '+TEST01/test/datafile/data01.dbf'
Thanks

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when I am trying to restore control file. It creates an ASM alias name in +DATA_DM01/EMERALD/controlfile/cntrl01.dbf',+RECO_DM01/EMERALD/controlfile/cntrl02.dbf',' and +DATA_DM01/EMERALD/controlfile/cntrl03.dbf' but It creates fully Qualified ASM Filename under +DATA_DM01/APSPROD and +RECO_DM01/
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2> ;
Starting restore at 02-APR-14
using channel ORA_DISK_1
channel ORA_DISK_1: restoring control file
channel ORA_DISK_1: restore complete, elapsed time: 00:00:07
output file name=+DATA_DM01/emerald/controlfile/cntrl01.dbf
output file name=+RECO_DM01/emerald/controlfile/cntrl02.dbf
output file name=+DATA_DM01/emerald/controlfile/cntrl03.dbf
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Type         Redund Striped Time             Sys Name
                                               N    cntrl02.dbf => +RECO_DM01/APSPROD/CONTROLFILE/current.17006.843826701
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Type         Redund Striped Time             Sys Name
CONTROLFILE HIGH    FINE     APR 02 12:00:00 Y    current.17006.843826701
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Type         Redund Striped Time             Sys Name
                                               N    cntrl01.dbf => +DATA_DM01/APSPROD/CONTROLFILE/current.3678.843826699
                                               N    cntrl03.dbf => +DATA_DM01/APSPROD/CONTROLFILE/current.3679.843826701
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Type         Redund Striped Time             Sys Name
CONTROLFILE HIGH    FINE     APR 02 12:00:00 Y    current.3678.843826699
CONTROLFILE HIGH    FINE     APR 02 12:00:00 Y    current.3679.843826701
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It sounds like I did something out of sequence based upon reading the split library information, thinking I was doing the right thing.
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Restoring backed up files to new laptop hard drive

I recently upgraded from 10.3 to 10.5 (skipping Tiger), all the while backing up to an external Maxtor drive. Then my hard drive started dying. So I bought a new hard drive and put it in an external 800 FW enclosure. I formatted the new drive and installed 10.5, by-passing the dying drive but using the install CD. Then I installed the new drive into my laptop. Now I want to copy the backed up files on my Maxtor HD onto the new hard drive. I've spoken to an Apple guy, couldn't help. Went to Genius Bar, got wrong advice. Went to Maxtor web site, couldn't find answer. I have used the application "Backup" that came with 10.3 while doing backups; continued using this after upgrading to 10.5. Have not used Time Machine! I was able to copy and paste from the old drive which I put into the external enclosure, but couldn't read all the files. Home folder wasn't even listed. All my iTunes library is on Maxtor, but can't get to it. Need help on this, please!

I believe that Apple's "Backup" application uses a special storage scheme that normaly requires Apple Backup to restore the backup items. There may be a problem, though, because your screenshot shows the backup items as ordinary folders. I don't use Backup any more, but I have some old storage items made with Backup 3, and my full and incremental backup items look like single files in Finder. They actually are packages, "special" folders with the same internal structure as the one you posted, but which look like single files in Finder. Maybe you used an earlier version of Backup that creates folders instead of package files.
I don't know if Backup 3 will be able to open and use the "normal-looking" folders that you do have, but it's worth a try. If you don't have Backup 3 on your current Leopard installation, you can download it at
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL184
You need a MobileMe subscription to make new backups, but I think you can restore old backups even without a subscription. There is a Help menu in Backup 3 which includes instructions on how to restore things when you no longer have the backup plan used to make the backups. You would normally use Backup 3 to open the most recent IncrementalBackup file if there is one, otherwise the FullBackup file. In your situation I would try to open the folder with those names, not the folder contents.
If this doesn't work try double-clicking the "backup.sparseimage" files in the Folder>Contents>Contents subfolders. If the disk image mounts, look inside the mounted disk for your stuff and drag the contents back to your internal HD. Don't try to restore "settings", just datafiles.

Re-connecting Elements 9 to a New Location

I have copied all my images - around 500Gb - to a new (larger) external Hard Drive. The transfer took about 16 hours.
Can anyone advise how I move/reconnect the Adobe Elements catalog to point to the new location?
The answer I'd not like to hear is that I need to re-copy these source media files through instructions within Elements 9. I can't believe it's above a smart software developer's ability or insight to predict that would be a common occurrence for Elements users and to have made it an easy process to ‘re-point’ their product to the new content location.
Thanks
Charles

Charles,
You had already made things clear in your other posts.
As you say, you are starting with a very sophisticated tree organization, with deliberate file name duplications for instance, with a lot of external disks : I have never seen anything like this before... no I am wrong : its just a little more that what I did before starting to use Elements ten years ago
Now its obvious to me that I have given you too much info, too many links and that has not helped you to understand how to solve your problems. Most of your objections in your last post show that you have missed the answers already given.
Before applying the best methods to reconnect, there are facts you have to understand.
- any database organizing system (DAM) like the Organizer, Lightroom or more sophisticated ones, provide ways to insure easy retrieval and grouping of media, sorting and rating, keeping track of originals and versions. That's also your goal.
- you have created your own system (very similar to my own one, 10 years ago). The question is : do you consider it as the ultimate goal, or simply a means to achieve the above general goal ?
- You want to keep your own organization : it's quite possible to do so even if it is redundant, and totally opposed to any database system philosophy. For instance, you understand that your Organizer catalog only contains paths to your selectec working files and totally ignores others. The builtin tools to move, rename, delete or backup/restore ignore other files. You don't want to use them precisely because you want to control all files. All those database systems can solve the final organization goals : they can deal with hundred of thousands pictures, keeping track of originals as well as version sets, they nearly completely free you of the task of thinking about folders. You simply have to use them, and trust them.
- Do you really think that there is a market to develop such personal solutions ? As I said before it is possible to keep your organization together with the standard one, but that means only useless complexity. Even if the developers of Elements are not the smartest, they are working with the same choice as other elaborate systems like Lightroom : trust the software and understand and use it.
- "Buyers beware..." There, you are right. There are other kinds of tools, and it should be obvious that many users cannot accept to trust a software and stop thinking about folders : they are right in thinking the Organizer is not the right tool for them.
charlesjennings wrote:
I CAN'T BELIEVE that the PSE developers didn't forsee the following needs:
a. that users would want to move images from one disk to another at times as they ran out of space or upgraded
b. that users may not want PSE to manage ALL their images, but just a sub-set (the better ones, 'working' files etc.)
c. that Adobe hasn't produced either guidance or tools to make migration straightforward.
- You are also partly right here : the Organizer was first introduced at a time when using external disks was not common. But you are wrong in that : the way to change disk or upgrade hardware or software version has been widely covered (see my links and Adobe's help) and there are safe ways included, especially the backup and restore way, the moving files way and ways of reconnecting (even if those are not as powerful as in Lightroom). Then managing only a subset of pictures has never been a problem, except if you insist on your sophisticated tree arborescence with duplicate names.
Now, to solve your problem .:
First did you read and can you follow the instructions in the 2nd link (quickly reconnecting...) I gave you ?
There would be two other ways to do the job, but the fact that you have already reconnected some files might be a problem.
- First : simply do the standard migrating way in the Organizer : backup your catalog to one of your external disks, and simply restore to the custom location keeping the same tree organization on your new drive. That's time consuming, but simple and safe and there is no risk for your original master files : the catalogued files will be restored in the right subfolders, totally ignoring duplicate file names.
- The last resort... I won't give it here because it requires direct changes in the sqlite database contained in your catalog. I am sure that for one person that might help, I would cause severe troubles for dozens of others... I also think that if smart developers wanted to implement this catalog update following a drive change, they would meet many problems like yours because of seemingly identical situations hiding custom differences in personal organization.

I keep getting this pop-up every few minutes: "This web page is being redirected to a new location. Would you like to resend the form data you have typed to the new location?" I'm sick of it!!! How can I get rid of it???

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I keep getting this pop-up every few minutes: "This web page is being redirected to a new location. Would you like to resend the form data you have typed to the new location?" I'm sick of it!!! How can I get rid of it???

Start Firefox in [[Safe Mode]] to check if one of the extensions is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox (Tools) > Add-ons > Appearance/Themes).
*Don't make any changes on the Safe mode start window.
*https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode
*https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes
Do a malware check with some malware scanning programs. 
You need to scan with all programs because each program detects different malware. 
Make sure that you update each program to get the latest version of their databases before doing a scan. 
 
* http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php - Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
* http://www.superantispyware.com/ - SuperAntispyware
* http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/defender/default.mspx - Windows Defender: Home Page
* http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html - Spybot Search & Destroy
* http://www.lavasoft.com/products/ad_aware_free.php - Ad-Aware Free
See also:
* "Spyware on Windows": http://kb.mozillazine.org/Popups_not_blocked

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