Re: [users] Base panic - lost all data!

2006-10-23 Thread Robin Laing
Dotan Cohen wrote: On 23/10/06, Brian E. Blandford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You're really going to think me stupid now. I thought I did have most of the records backed up from the last time that I made a back-up DVD. But I discovered that somehow or other all my directories had been saved as

Re: [users] Base panic - lost all data!

2006-10-23 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 23/10/06, Brian E. Blandford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You're really going to think me stupid now. I thought I did have most of the records backed up from the last time that I made a back-up DVD. But I discovered that somehow or other all my directories had been saved as files - which are of

Re: [users] Base panic - lost all data!

2006-10-23 Thread Brian E. Blandford
Dotan Cohen wrote: On 23/10/06, Brian E. Blandford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks for your suggestions. I think the solutions may be beyond my competence, and in that we're talking about a fairly small number of records (65) it might in the end be less time-consuming to re-enter everything -

Re: [users] Base panic - lost all data!

2006-10-23 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 23/10/06, Brian E. Blandford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks for your suggestions. I think the solutions may be beyond my competence, and in that we're talking about a fairly small number of records (65) it might in the end be less time-consuming to re-enter everything - but I don't want the

Re: [users] Base panic - lost all data!

2006-10-23 Thread Brian E. Blandford
Thanks for your suggestions. I think the solutions may be beyond my competence, and in that we're talking about a fairly small number of records (65) it might in the end be less time-consuming to re-enter everything - but I don't want the same thing to happen again. Anyone got any suggestions w

Re: [users] Base panic - lost all data!

2006-10-23 Thread Robin Laing
Brian E. Blandford wrote: Panic drives me to re-subscribe! I was working on my CD collection data-base. I was increasing the permitted number of characters in one of the fields in the table (I had discovered increasing the permitted characters in a form via its controls doesn't work, which is w

Re: [users] Base panic - lost all data!

2006-10-22 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 20/10/06, Brian E. Blandford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Panic drives me to re-subscribe! I was working on my CD collection data-base. I was increasing the permitted number of characters in one of the fields in the table (I had discovered increasing the permitted characters in a form via its co

[users] Base panic - lost all data!

2006-10-21 Thread Brian E. Blandford
Panic drives me to re-subscribe! I was working on my CD collection data-base. I was increasing the permitted number of characters in one of the fields in the table (I had discovered increasing the permitted characters in a form via its controls doesn't work, which is why I was editing the table)