Migrating databases

If you're migrating from an old version of Reto (v1.5.2 and below) to a newer one, you may get this warning message while opening reto.py:

If you've just downloaded Reto from a version that's v1.6 or higher, this is most likely a false positive and you've nothing to worry about. If that's not the case, you might notice that all your databases have been reset - that's because on newer versions of the bot, an encrypted version of the original database is used that isn't compatible with the .JSON-based one from the get-go.

To migrate your old .JSON files to the new .RETO filesystem, run python encrypt-databases.py from the command line. This will take a good while if you've got a good number of comments/posts, profiles and such - so make sure you've got the time!

⚠️ If you've started using the new database by accident, you may receive a The database [database] isn't empty. Skipping... error. You can erase that specific file from the db/ folder to make sure the migration is succesful.