facing error while opening local universe

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Hi,
I am facing error shown in picture below .while opening a universe available on my local machine .

Please reply asap

gaurav

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gauravg (BOB member since 2009-04-27)

[system]

That is because you’re either trying to open a universe from a different CMS or the universe was deleted from the repository
In former case try logging in the correct repository CMS to open it, while in the latter case you may get some workaround on searching BOB
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haider (BOB member since 2005-07-18)

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Thanks for reply haider .

whole repository was deleted . i have exported the BIAR file to get back my reports and universe .
but the universe in BIAR file is old so i want to use universe on my local machine to update it by exporting .
But it is not leeting me to open it .

Please provide the link on bob for further help ( if you have ).

gaurav

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gauravg (BOB member since 2009-04-27)

[system]

Check this

Opening universes from another CMS in XI R2

I am just looking for more detail on the process quoted above. It looks like it worked for somebody. Thanks… The CMS repository has two portions … a database and a filesystem. The database stores the security information and also has a pointer to the filesystem where the universe is actually stored. Because the security information is stored only in the database, you can substitute the physical file of a universe to which you do have access (in the new CMS) behind the scenes. Steps woul…

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haider (BOB member since 2005-07-18)