Google App Engine local datastore path configuration

Question

Sorry for asking the nth permutation of this question, but i'm stymied.

I'm running GAE for python2.5 on OS X, and i'm losing all data between reboots. From what I understand from related SO posts, the default location for local datastore file is wiped with each reboot. I have tried changing the location to a central /datastores directory with:

dev_appserver.py --datastore_path=/Users/Me/gae_apps/datastores /Users/Me/gae_apps/app_1

which doesn't generate an error, but when i fire up dev_appserver.py after rebooting, I see this output, and the data is again wiped:

WARNING  2011-07-14 17:50:56,297 urlfetch_stub.py:108] No ssl package found. urlfetch will not be able to validate SSL certificates. 
INFO     2011-07-14 17:50:57,653 appengine_rpc.py:159] Server: appengine.google.com
INFO     2011-07-14 17:50:57,722 appcfg.py:453] Checking for updates to the SDK.
INFO     2011-07-14 17:50:58,448 appcfg.py:470] The SDK is up to date.
WARNING  2011-07-14 17:50:58,448 datastore_file_stub.py:511] Could not read datastore data from /var/folders/ps/psEgjl3fF+C5hecCKN2AW++++TI/-Tmp-/dev_appserver.datastore
INFO     2011-07-14 17:50:58,486 rdbms_sqlite.py:58] Connecting to SQLite database '' with file '/var/folders/ps/psEgjl3fF+C5hecCKN2AW++++TI/-Tmp-/dev_appserver.rdbms'
WARNING  2011-07-14 17:50:58,521 dev_appserver.py:4700] Could not initialize images API; you are likely missing the Python "PIL" module. ImportError: No module named _imaging
INFO     2011-07-14 17:50:58,689 dev_appserver_multiprocess.py:637] Running application portfolio on port 8080: http://localhost:8080

I should mention that i have several apps, all of which sit in separate directories under /Users/Me/gae_apps/

Not sure if this is related to the failure to read dev_appserver.datastore and subsequent switch to SQLite or not.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks!

Answer 1

Doing this "*--blobstore_path=/Users/me/Documents/workspace/app-name/ --datastore_path=/Users/me/Documents/workspace/app-name/datastore.rbm*", is working for me, on OS X.