OK, to recreate your groups file.
Sign in master password, of course
Get a clean copy of the Groups file. If you're not sure if the one on your
backup crashed or not, I might suggest downloading a completely clean copy
from the website.
Go to the Query screen and find Heads of Household. This will still work
without groups file.
Now, run the script you've written previously which:
Sets gGroupType = "H" (this only done once)
Loops through the current found set - In each loop:
Set gGroupPrimaryNumber = Record Number
Run script in Groups_102 "Create Household Record"
End loop
Sounds like you know how to write a script of this sort, but let me know if
you need help.
That should do it.
HTH,
Matt
At 08:58 PM 11/13/00 -0800, you wrote:
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> >Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 20:39:14 -0800
> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >From: Matthew Scholtz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Subject: [SUPPORT] Missing group file
> >
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> >>Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 19:02:38 -0500
> >>From: "Walt Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>To: "ebase support" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>X-Processed-By: HSKT 1.0 by Joshua Baer
> >>Subject: [SUPPORT] Missing group file
> >>
> >>Our current status is that the group file is missing. Looking through old
> >>backups it has been missing for quite a while. All the household
> information
> >>about individuals seems to be intact so that you only notice that groups is
> >>missing when you try to add someone to a household. I did find a very old
> >>groups file, missing almost everything (only 2 entries). I looked through
> >>the scripts and did not see one which would recreate the group file but it
> >>looks like it can be done. So here's hoping someone else has had the
> problem
> >>and created a script to recreate it.
> >>
> >>Secondary problem:
> >>
> >>While diagnosing the problem I discovered that we have been running without
> >>all the files opened for a while. If we were in all files open mode, I
> >>presume we would have gotten a nasty message about group being missing the
> >>next time we started FMP and could have then gone back to a more recent
> >>backup. [We need to change our backup policy, As is we have five zips named
> >>Mon-Fri and then reuse them. We now have a CD writer and shortly will be
> >>writing daily CDs and keeping them forever.] I am quite sure no one deleted
> >>the group file explicitly as all but one of the users doesn't have a
> clue of
> >>how to do that. Are there bugs in FMP that sometimes delete files? or
> >>perhaps just confusing dialog boxes that might have convinced someone to do
> >>something bad? All the files are managed by FM Server.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
