At 01:11 PM 10/24/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi, Sorry if this is duplicated from support address, but I never can get
>through to either, so I thought I'd try both.
>
>Seem to have a big problem. Every time I try to open ebase with filemaker
>5, it keeps saying my names_.102 file is damaged and cannot be opened. I
>tried to use the recover command, but that did not work fully either, lost
>some stuff I think. I had the
>names file saved on zip, but it seems to do the same thing. There is one
>file I was trying to get into, which for some reason did not have all the
>info it should have, and when I tried ot get into it, it said it had a
>problem and needed a record number. When I opened from the recovered names
>file, another file said the same thing.
>
>Have I messed up my database?? We are using two computers, and because we
>don't have a network set up yet, are copying the names file to share back
>and forth as work is done on different computers. We of course are only
>using one computer at a time as not to overwrite any information. I still
>have
>the info on the other computer, but what can I do to safely retrive from
>that? Is there a better way to backup and copy? Please help with this.
>
>Many thanks,
>Matthew Albracht
Matthew... well there are a lot of issues here and I have a pretty good
guess as to why your recovery isn't working. The first big problem is that
you've been sending a copy of only the NAMES file between 2 computers to be
updated. This will already cause inconsistencies in ebase... when you just
copy this one file to different machines and make any updates to it... then
record numbers, index numbers and possibly other calculations will go out
of sync... so when you crash, you crash real big.
This may be a job for a consultant to fix. You can check our list of
consultants on our website at http://www.ebase.org/help/consultants.htm or
you can try to make an appeal to folks on the Support
listserve ([EMAIL PROTECTED] - you'll have to subscribe if you haven't
already by typing SUBSCRIBE on the Subject line and sending the message to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]).
alice
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