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| Mork the Fiddle Senior Member United States Joined 3954 days ago 86 posts - 159 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Norwegian, Latin, Ancient Greek | Message 345 of 355 27 January 2016 at 7:56pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
To each his or her own. So many colors distract me, and I figure I either know a word or I don't, that a word is either passive or active for me. So, after I import a new text, I immediately convert all 1's in that text to 3's (and only that text should have 1's anyway). The color for Number 3 distracts me less than the other available colors. When I am sure I know a word, I convert it from 3 to 5. I no longer mark words as "Well Known." Instead I mark them as 5, so the definition will still be there, just in case. When I come across a 5 whose definition I have forgotten, I move it back to 3. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Mork the Fiddle Senior Member United States Joined 3954 days ago 86 posts - 159 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Norwegian, Latin, Ancient Greek | Message 346 of 355 27 January 2016 at 8:10pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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This concerns the matter of backups. A month or two ago, tiring of the constant need to stop and enter a definition for a new word, I decided to try something different. I am studying Ancient Greek, which has a lot more word forms than most modern Western languages, let alone more than English, so there are a lot more definitions to enter. I found a somewhat modified source of the Ancient Greek words and definitions that Perseus uses, and uploaded them into the LWT database. The scheme worked, more or less, but there were over 900,000 words from the source. When LWT attempts to back up that many records, it hits a time-out at the 5-minute mark and cannot produce a backup file. Without going into the messy technical details*, I go to the database itself and use a MySQL tool to backup (aka download) the data.
Consequently, this is not a problem for me, and since I doubt anyone else intends to upload data stemming from the Perseus source file, this will probably not be a problem for anyone else. Unless some aspiring polyglots use LWT to study 10 or 12 languages. Under those circumstances, taking all their vocabulary combined, they might hit the 900,000+ word/phrase mark. * Except to say the problem does not lie with MySql, which can handle a lot more than 900,000 records. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| lwtproject Pentaglot Senior Member Netherlands https://learning-wit Joined 4877 days ago 149 posts - 264 votes Speaks: French, Dutch*, German, English, Mandarin Studies: Italian | Message 347 of 355 08 February 2016 at 3:10pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
In such a case, I would recommend that you create a database for each language and duplicate the LWT directory with a new version of connect.inc.php accordingly. Then you should also not have any problems with database backup, etc. If you have still problems, increase in "php.ini" the server parameters "post_max_size" and "upload_max_filesize" to 999M, and restart the web server. 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Zireael Triglot Senior Member Poland Joined 4636 days ago 518 posts - 636 votes Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, Spanish Studies: German, Sign Language, Tok Pisin, Arabic (Yemeni), Old English | Message 348 of 355 04 April 2016 at 12:55pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Aww, where was it my entire life?
Should I install this or the official version? Also, how do I install it to D: drive? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6582 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 349 of 355 05 April 2016 at 11:52pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Your choice :) As you can see, the original author has posted here since.
I don't actually use lwt myself so I can't help you. Feel free to ask on the new forum. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| lwtproject Pentaglot Senior Member Netherlands https://learning-wit Joined 4877 days ago 149 posts - 264 votes Speaks: French, Dutch*, German, English, Mandarin Studies: Italian | Message 350 of 355 07 April 2016 at 5:58pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
I recommend the official version - it is IMHO bug-free. I have tried also the "improved" version on Github, but it seems quite buggy. You must install LWT into the web directory that is specified in the server software documentation. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Mork the Fiddle Senior Member United States Joined 3954 days ago 86 posts - 159 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Norwegian, Latin, Ancient Greek | Message 351 of 355 07 April 2016 at 7:56pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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| Zireael Triglot Senior Member Poland Joined 4636 days ago 518 posts - 636 votes Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, Spanish Studies: German, Sign Language, Tok Pisin, Arabic (Yemeni), Old English | Message 352 of 355 26 March 2017 at 9:09pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
I've begun using it for Japanese and I'm seeing doubled characters. If I have メトル as a multi word term (because it treats every character as a word) I will often see the last character doubled (and marked as not known). It's really annoying. I had to stick to inserting spaces via MeCab to avoid this, but I would like to learn reading original texts... 1 person has voted this message useful |
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