Link to this post | posted 08 Feb, 2016 19:58

GregFrederick@letu.edu

In several instances on several computers, Phamerator is reporting that it has the newest update. But it is unable to locate phages newly added to the database. We have tried restarting, switching in and out of phamerator and other apps in the VM, and completely restarting the VB. None seem to help. Is there a way to force Phamerator to run an update even though it thinks it has the most recent version avialable? Thanks in advance. Greg

Link to this post | posted 09 Feb, 2016 03:00
cdshaffer	yes, Open phamerator. Select preferences from the edit menu. Click the "Force database update" button I always start these updates very first thing in class before I start any lecturing to give maximum time. I also only have at most 5 student computers trying to update at any one time so the wireless network does not get saturated.

Link to this post | posted 09 Feb, 2016 13:55
GregFrederick@letu.edu	Thanks. I tried this and it does not seem to update on some computers. On the computers that are not updating I am seeing: Server: http://phamerator.csm.jmu.edu/sea Database: Mycobacteriophage_Draft I'm start to think these are not the correct server/database settings. Can you please confirm? Thanks. Greg

Link to this post | posted 09 Feb, 2016 14:16
GregFrederick@letu.edu	Ahhh. I just checked on my notebook which does update and I found the following settings: Server: http://phamerator.webfunctional.com/databases_H (cannot see the rest!) Database: Actino-Draft I think I saw the correct server info listed in another thread… I'll go digging.

Link to this post | posted 09 Feb, 2016 14:18
GregFrederick@letu.edu	Here it is from Dan's post on "Databases and Alternate servers" in this forum group… Server: http://phamerator.webfactional.com/databases_Hatfull Database: Actino_Draft Thanks for the heads-up on the "forced update".

Link to this post | posted 28 Mar, 2017 11:39
vbrownk	My Phamerator claims to have been updating the database, but now it is asking from my root database password -? What is that? Thanks, Victoria

Link to this post | posted 29 Mar, 2017 01:59
cdshaffer	name: root password: phage

Link to this post | posted 06 Apr, 2017 13:45
masmith	cdshaffer name: root password: phage Thank you - I've been sitting here for hours trying to get this work again. Very helpful.