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How to merge two files into a single valid GNO file?


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By hiltonzenon - Monday, November 4, 2024
Hello,
I have two GNO files that started out identical—one on my laptop and one on my desktop. However, they have since diverged and been updated with different information. It’s a bit silly, I know.

Is there a way to merge or combine the two files into a single valid GNO file?
By jfreilly - 2 days ago @ 3:44 PM
Its not that silly. I had occassion to do this when when a PC died and I thought was unrecoverable and some months later was able to reecover the changes made by recovering the directory that contained the genopro file and related files.  I pulled the dead laptop apart and removed the drive and mounted it in a usb device capable of handling ssd drives. I also had the encryption key so could decrypt the drive.

In the meantime I had started updating a copy of the backup so had two copies with different edits made over several months.

I then recovered the changes manually by unzipping the two geno profiles and using a diff tool to compare the xml files.  You can then edit the master file adding the changes as appropriate.  You could edit a copy of the master file if you want to be able to recover after the editing for any reason.

When doing a diff some of the attributes can cause pain like position which you arent really interested in.  A smarter diff tool might help I dont know of one that smart and for a small file its workable.

For things like pictures, sounds and other files you can use a diff tool that handle directories to do that as well.  That part is actually easier to do as diff tools can handle that easily.