At 12:50 PM -0400 10/25/00, Gobal Renaissance Alliance wrote:
>Thank you. I tried to check related files, and it said none of them needed
>to be done. Yet when I go into this one particular record that it says is
>damaged, here is what comes up after it is open and I go into data entry
>screen " This field cannot be modified until 'record number' is given a
>valid value." Then a display comes up that says I must create a related
>record, which I choose yes to, but then right after that, a display comes up
>that says the file is damaged and I have to exit filemaker and perform a
>recover.
It sounds as if one of the files related to names in which records
are created when you add a names record (Custom, Profile, and
Summary) are damaged and need to be recovered.
>I did the recover before, which completed, but some of the files
>were missing, one of them was the 'damaged file'- though others looked to be
>randomly missing, and I don't know how many or which ones, because the
>number did not change of how many files there are. I just saw a couple that
>as I was scrolling through the files, were blank. We have over 5,000 so I
>didn't go through them all. Is there any way to find out how many are
>gone? What I wnat to know is if I should jsut revert to our backup from
>earlier this month, which would cause us to lose about 80 files, or if most
>of it is probably still in tact from the recover?
In this paragraph do you mean "record" when you are saying "files" A
file is a collection of records. For example, The information you
have in ebase about a particular person is kept in a record in the
names file, donation info is kept in a related record in the payments
file, etc. If you have lost perhaps 80 records, and have the
paperwork from which to re-enter them, there is no question you
should toss the damages files, revert to your most recent backup, and
re-enter the lost records. You will encounter way too much grief with
scrambled and uncertain data with any other path.
>
>Many thanks,
>Matthew Albracht
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Dave Shaw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "Gobal Renaissance Alliance" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 9:27 AM
>Subject: Re: [SUPPORT] names file damaged
>
>
>> >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 either.
>>
>> What happened when you tried the recover command. Did FileMaker stop
>> in the middle of the recover process, or did it complete the process
>> and still leave you with a damaged file?
>>
>> >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 didn't have a file number.
>>
>> I'm not sure what you mean here. What file were you trying to get
>> into? How did it tell you it didn't have all the info it needed?
>>
>> >
>> >Have I lost all 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.
>>
>> If you are copying only the names file back and forth, that could be
>> one reasone for "didn't have all the info it should have". When you
>> enter a new names record, much more happens "behind the curtain" than
>> an entry in the names file.
>>
>> >We of course are only
>> >using one computer at a time as not to erase 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.
>> >
>>
>> If you really do have a good version on the other computer, All you
>> have lost is the work you have done since you shifted to the current
> > machine. If you have been copying only the names file back and forth,
>> you should run the script Check for Related Records to allow
>> FileMaker to do the work it normally does when you enter a new name.
>> Then you should set up a procedure to copy the entire ebase file set
>> back and forth when you switch machines.
>> --
>> Dave Shaw Northwest Classics, Inc
>> tel: 206-954-7526 fax: 206-625-1338
>>
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Dave Shaw Northwest Classics, Inc
tel: 206-954-7526 fax: 206-625-1338
