TheBrain 10 released

Posted by Jon Polish
Nov 7, 2018 at 12:24 PM

One of the major differences between 8 and 10 is that 10 uses a database system that must reside in a specific location whose path cannot exceed 50 characters. Backing up would not be a problem but restoring is. Apparently the developers are concerned about database corruption secondary to users moving databases. I have not experienced this problem with 8.

Out of curiosity, I tried backing up 10 and then continued to add data to my test database. I then restored the backup. In short, it was not pretty. Again, this was very simple with version 8.

I think TheBrain folks want you to keep your database synced with their cloud. I don’t want to do that.

There is another option that would avoid data corruption in 10. Create a Brain archive file and use that as a backup.

Jon