MySQL Bugs: #15191: Cannot load backup profile

Bug #15191	Cannot load backup profile
Submitted:	23 Nov 2005 16:05	Modified:	19 Jan 2007 14:40
Reporter:	Hector Macias	Email Updates:
Status:	Closed	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Administrator	Severity:	S2 (Serious)
Version:	1.2.8	OS:	Windows (Windows XP)
Assigned to:	Mike Lischke	CPU Architecture:	Any

Description:
After creating a backup profile in the administrator, I tried to select it and a message pops up with the legend: "Error while loading backup profile". The backup profile does not load.

This error occurs in version 1.1.4 and 1.1.5

Thanks in advance.

How to repeat:
Create a backup profile. Then try to load it.

Hi!

Can you please upload a copy of your backup profile so that we can reproduce this problem ?  I created a backup profile, reloaded it, and I had no problems at all.

Thanks.

Backup profile

Attachment: haja_db.mbp (text/plain), 14.99 KiB.

I have been tearing my hair out over this bug for some time.
The bug does indeed exist, and can be replicated.

OS: win2kpro sp4
MySQL Administrator: all versions I tested up to 1.2.6rc (most recent version to date).
Tested on several machines.

I have verified the following:
* The bug depends in some way on the windows user account.
* The bug does not depend on the configuration file (*.mbp).
* The bug will appear if the windows user account name contains accented characters.

My windows user account name is "andré", account type is "power user". Under this account name I cannot load previously saved backup profiles.
(Of course I log into MySQL Administrator as "root".)
However, I noticed that the bug did not appear when I was logged in on the Administrator account.
Swapping *.mbp files between user accounts did not change this behaviour.
There were no problems with file access permissions.

Windows user privileges were not involved either. I tested this by creating a new windows user account aptly named "test", with power user privileges like my normal user account.
When logged in as "test", the bug did *not* appear.

This leaves the presence of accented chars in the user account name (and thus in the path to the *.mbp files, which is \Documents and Settings\%username%\Dati Applicazioni\MySQL\, as the likely cause.

Note that, if accented characters in the path are the problem, there may be versions of windows in certain languages which have accented chars in the \Application Data\ part of the path as this depends on the language...

Thank you for the report.

Verified as described: create user account contains non-latin characters (for example, "Света"), create backup project, reopen MySQL Administrator and try to access to the backup project.

Bug #25169, Bug #23470 and Bug #15960 have been marked as dupliates of this one

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