databases in Memmaid

MerlinAZ · 03-27-05, 07:23 PM

Hi. I'm looking to free up some RAM.
I ran Memmaid and looked in the database area and found two files taking up a total of 3.2MB.
They are mas_mono and mas_warning.
Under Info, it says Type-Application.
How can I find out which applications are using them?
I searched for them using the "Find" and neither one was found.
Thanks!

03-28-05, 11:55 AM

Originally Posted by MerlinAZ

Hi. I'm looking to free up some RAM.
I ran Memmaid and looked in the database area and found two files taking up a total of 3.2MB.
They are mas_mono and mas_warning.
Under Info, it says Type-Application.
How can I find out which applications are using them?
I searched for them using the "Find" and neither one was found.
Thanks!

Unfortunatly any application can create as many databases as it wants, giving it the names it wants.
There is no way to trace back which application created this database or which application is using it !

Those databases might even belong to an uninstalled application

You can do a full backup and delete those databases and then see if any of your installed applications is not working properly.

Let us know

MerlinAZ · 03-28-05, 12:17 PM

Thanks for the response!
Is there any way to find out where the databases are?
I looked for them using Resco Explorer in every folder and registry area I could and still can't find them.
If I could, then moving them would be easier than deleting them in case I had to put them back.
Any thoughts?
Thanks for the help.

DStutz · 03-28-05, 12:25 PM

Originally Posted by MerlinAZ

Thanks for the response!
Is there any way to find out where the databases are?
I looked for them using Resco Explorer in every folder and registry area I could and still can't find them.
If I could, then moving them would be easier than deleting them in case I had to put them back.
Any thoughts?
Thanks for the help.

If you tap and hold on the filename in memmaid, you'll get a popup menu from which you can select 'explore'. This will launch the file manager and tke you right to the files' location. (You can also configure memmaid to use Resco explorer instead of the default explorer)

MerlinAZ · 03-28-05, 12:47 PM

The files are in the Dabases area.
I can select the individual files, and tap the Info button, but that just tells me that the Type is an Application.
It doesn't tell me which one it's associated with.
Tap and holding the file name doesn't bring up an option list.
I used Resco's search to try to find them but it didn't come up with those database names.

DStutz · 03-28-05, 12:59 PM

Sorry for not paying attention!

03-28-05, 09:24 PM

Databases are stored in a sepearate area (they are databases).
You're not going to be able to find them using any file explorer or registry viewer.
Databases are not associated with applications. Any database can be used by any/all applecations, even they didn't create the databse to start with.

Scylla · 03-28-05, 11:47 PM

Hi Sam!

An MAS database is usually an MSSQL-related database. I know that you run Epocrates on your X50v. Do you see your Epocrates databases there? I think that Epocrates may use SQL databases, so these might well be your Epocrates db's.

MerlinAZ · 03-29-05, 10:26 AM

Hey Jim, Dinar, et al!
I found out what it was!
MobileMicromedex was the issue. It's a Drug/Interactions program that apparantly won't install its databases to an SD card. I called their alleged tech support yesterday to find out if the database in question was theirs. They couldn't tell me if it was.
Their response to me was to uninstall the program.
I did what those morons told me to do. I uninstalled it since I thought it was the culprit anyway and got 9MB of RAM back.
I'm glad to tell you that Memmaid told me the database files were there in the first place when there was no other way to see them.
Another happy customer.
Jim, talk soon. By the way, it looks like ePocrates' database is in their install folder in program files since it's not in the databases area that Memmaid screens.
Thanks again.

03-29-05, 10:32 AM

We're very glad to hear that.

It's strange that an application creates a database this big and leaves it behind after the uninstalltion.

MerlinAZ · 03-29-05, 10:52 AM

It didn't leave it behind.
I uninstalled the program, and then ran the Memmaid database analizer again and it was gone.
I did however find a database from another uninstalled program and deleted it, but it was only ~500kb, not as huge as the other one.

thedakr · 12-15-05, 01:30 PM

This seems like the appropriate thread for this question...

Is there any way to be able to edit the databases? I can see a folder for databases when I sync, but I can't access anything therein. Is there a program that will enable me to edit the databases?

coolabah · 12-16-05, 01:02 AM

Originally Posted by thedakr

This seems like the appropriate thread for this question...

Is there any way to be able to edit the databases? I can see a folder for databases when I sync, but I can't access anything therein. Is there a program that will enable me to edit the databases?

Yes, I use pocket dbExplorer 2.2 (not updated for a while) from I think Phatware, IIRC. You can browse the text portion of any database which helps one determine what application it belongs to, delete individual entries or whole tables etc.....

yep here we go you can demo it :
http://www.phatware.com/hpcdbex.html