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Cloning is an excellent method of creating bootable backups which will indeed suffice to allow the direct replacement of one drive with another, thus allowing booting up to an exact representation of the original drive from the cloned one.  Cloning is also an excellent approach to drive upgrade.

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In this article, we are going to go through the process of using SuperDuper.

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For my personal situation, which was to create an image of my existing drive and transfer it onto an upgrade drive, I decided that an external drive was better, faster, cheaper.

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Over the next few days, I’m going to show you step by step how to upgrade your Mac hard drive.  This guide is completely comprehensive.  I will cover every step from backup to installation.  Let’s get started.

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I’m using Cairngorm so I wrote a command class to do this for me.

package com.dougrdotnet.commands
{
	import com.adobe.cairngorm.commands.ICommand;
	import com.adobe.cairngorm.control.CairngormEvent;
	import com.dougrdotnet.model.StatusModelLocator;

	import flash.desktop.NativeApplication;

	public class GetAppXMLVersionCommand implements ICommand
	{
		private var statusModel:StatusModelLocator = StatusModelLocator.getInstance();
		public function execute(event:CairngormEvent):void
		{
		   var descriptor:XML = NativeApplication.nativeApplication.applicationDescriptor;
		   var ns:Namespace = descriptor.namespace();
		   var version:String = descriptor.ns::version;
		   statusModel.version = version;
		}

	}
}

What i’ve done is use the NativeApplication class’ applicationDescriptor property to get the XML from app.xml. I set a variable to hold the namespace value from the descriptor xml. Then I go in and get the version node using descriptor.ns::version. Then, in this case, I am assigning the version string to a Model variable so that I can use it wherever that model singleton exists. Certainly, this method could simply return version to supply the value to the caller.

Solution: Write an ALTER TABLE query to change the length required in the column to 5, add ZEROFILL, and add UNSIGNED to the table structure.

By altering the table for ZEROFILL, this will automatically add zeros before any entry which has less numerals than 5, as specified in the query.  MySQL adds UNSIGNED to a column that has a ZEROFILL attribute.  From the MySQL Docs:

If you specify ZEROFILL for a numeric column, MySQL automatically adds the UNSIGNED attribute to the column.

Here is the query to alter a table in order to change the table structure for ZEROFILL and ensure 5 digits:

ALTER TABLE [table name] MODIFY COLUMN [column name] INT(5) ZEROFILL UNSIGNED;

After altering the table the zip code validation began working as expected.  Sometimes, its just not in the code and one has to have a look around for other possibilities.  Hope this helps you out.