Walt,
I agree with Dave that it's not immediately obvious why this happened. I don't know
of any way to delete a file from within FMP. Perhaps someone made a mistake in doing
a backup, and copied an old version on top of the new?
As far as recreating the groups file, that's pretty easy. I can tell you how to do
it, but I don't have time right now. I'll try to get to it tonight.
Matt
PS Is there no-one from egroup/TechRocks monitoring this list anymore?
At 04:32 PM 11/13/00 -0700, you wrote:
>>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.
>
>Looks like you're in over the head of most everyone on the list. I've
>never hear of a similar problem. I don't believe there is a script to
>recreate the group file. What did you have in mind to do that? I
>think the information to recreate the groups file is in the several
>fields in the names table relating to householding, but it doesn't
>look easy to parse it out. Best of luck, and if you get it figured
>out, please let the list know.
>
>>
>>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.
>
>...
>
>> 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.
>
>I believe that the groups file must have been deleted by someone
>explicitly, although accidentally. I have never heard of FileMaker
>deleting files undetected. Much easier to imagine someone
>accidentally deleting a file.
>
>
>--
>Dave Shaw Northwest Classics, Inc
>tel: 206-954-7526 fax: 206-625-1338
>
>
Matthew Scholtz
Evaluator and IS Coordinator
Health Initiatives For Youth (HIFY)
www.hify.com
