"Recovery" still causes file corruption in certain rare cases. I don't
think it is still a solution for "fixing" files, just for getting your
data out to a known good file.
Think of it as "data recovery" rather than "file recovery,"
protestations of FMI luminaries to the contrary.
j.
On Aug 26, 2009, at 10:35 AM, Chuck Pelto wrote:
Already tried Recovery. No joy.
Indeed. Here's an interesting observation.
If I do a recovery on the datafile on the MacBook Pro with 10.5, if
I put the recovered file back on the hosting machine, a G4 running
10.4, it won't work. Can't enter text into fields, can't do much of
anything as for entering data with the 10.5-recovered data file on
the 10.4 operating system machine. Have to make a clone of the file
from the 10.4 machine and import all the records from the 10.5-
recovered file into the clone generated on the 10.4 machine.
VERY 'odd'.....
On Aug 25, 2009, at 1:36 PM, Richard S. Russell wrote:
On 2009 Aug 25, at 14:14, Chuck Pelto wrote:
Regret to report 'no joy' in the process.
I doubt if it is a network issue. It seems to be confined to the
this datafile, FMP10a and/or MacBook Pro machine. Other machines
don't seem to have this problem with that file. Or any other file.
I've tried re-installing FMP10a, also. No improvement either.
There is something definitely 'odd' about all of this.
Try the File > Recover feature. This is an "off label" use for it,
but sometimes it works, and it's an easy thing to do.
If that still doesn't help, there's the really tedious and
painstaking approach of using "Save a Copy As ..." to make a clone
of the file, then importing all the data from the old file into the
clone. Obviously, this is something you'd want to do on the host
computer, not your guest MacBook.
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