David, Take a look in the DXbase help file under Database Safeguards, Database Size. It explains everything.
Regards, Courtney ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Robbins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 7:54 PM Subject: [DXBase] computer locked up lost data > My computer locked up while I had DXbase 2002 up and running. I had to > shut off the computer and bring it back up. This is not the first time > that has happened, and I knew that the next time I brought up DXbase, I > would have to initialize tables. I did bring the program back up and got > the message that I needed to initialize tables. I did, but got an error > message "no current record". All my qso's are there, but the summary > tables are empty. I created a new database and imported my qso's into the > new log and initialized the tables. Everything looks fine. But, I was > looking at the file sizes and the new database is 8 megs and the old one is > 20 megs. all 15K qsos are in both files. What did I lose? > > Any way to fix the old file? > > Thanks & 73 > > David > W4IDX > > _______________________________________________ > DXBase Reflector - Please visit us on the web at www.dxbase.com > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > To UNSUBSCRIBE please visit: > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase >
